…State Representative Barbara Dittrich (R-38), Vice-Chair of the Committee on Workforce Development and member of the Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment, took to Twitter, citing the Badger Institute’s research…
Bradley Foundation Funds “Opt-Out” Campaign to Cripple Public Sector Unions
…of the American Experiment: $50,000 (educatedteachersmn.com) Commonwealth Foundation: $100,000 (newchoiceny.com) Empire Center: $50,000 Fairness Center: $50,000 Freedom Foundation: $100,000 (optouttoday.com) Illinois Policy Institute: $100,000 (leavemyunion.com) Liberty Justice Center: $50,000 (standwithworkers.org)…
ALEC Says “Strike!” Just Do It Without Unions
…organizing themselves, whether at large technology companies where employees protest certain company sales or expenditures, or teachers organizing a walkout seeking higher pay as they did in West Virginia and…
Koch-Backed Tech Group Behind Tool Used to Push Union Opt-Out Campaigns
…their motivations. Describing the Janus case to the donors, Tracie Sharp, CEO of SPN said: “Once this ruling comes down — and we do expect it to come down in…
Kochsβ Dark-Money Network Bankrolls Campus βFree Speechβ Group
Over the last few years, right-wing groups have cried that there is a “free speech crisis” on campuses and have pushed state governments to pass legislation that many professors and…
Franklin’s Right-Wing Watchdog.org Rebrands as The Center Square
…itself as an “investigative journalism service” compelling “cash-strapped” local papers with free content when they were “particularly vulnerable.” The method was so effective that it was cited as an inspiration…
Corporate-Funded Groups Continue Campaign to Cripple Public Sector Unions
…of legal assaults on public employee unions as we head into the 2020 elections appears to be the latest stage of that campaign. David Armiak contributed research to this report….
CMD Wins Reversal of Restrictive DOJ Public Records Policy
…on corporate influence and money in politics. Documents obtained by the litigation concerning Schimel’s anti-ACA litigation will be analyzed and published on the group’s websites, ExposedbyCMD.org and PRWatch.org. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6019583-33I7391-Settlement-Agreement-Release-Signed.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6019582-33I9018-19-Order-Dismissing-Claims-Signed-5-20-19.html…
ALEC Teams up with Anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom to Promote So-Called “Campus Free Speech” Bills
…front of the Ohio State Senate’s Education Committee. In his testimony, Dalton referenced Trump’s recent Executive Order on freedom of speech on college campuses that ties federal funding to the…
That Grifty Thing Stephen Moore Did With Herman Cain — and the Koch Brothers’ Blessing
…then a retired pizza-chain magnate, with an idea for a for-profit enterprise designed to scare employees of privately-held companies into voting for their employers’ favored candidates: Herd them into the…