Defunding Government Union Influence: The Freedom Foundation's Successes

One great thing about the Freedom Foundation is that nearly everything we do is successful. Even when we appear to lose a battle, by the simple act of climbing into the ring and fighting, we’re always advancing in the overall war to defund and distract the political influence of government unions.

A great example of our win-win policy is our door-to-door opt-out today program. The hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost dues to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) annually because of members opting out is a win. Still, we’re also winning because of the time and money SEIU is forced to devote to countering it.

In response to our efforts, SEIU has recruited a small army of thugs to spread lies to prevent people from learning and exercising their rights.

SEIU 775 is currently running ads offering to pay hired goons upwards of

$50,000 a year to “encourage” individual providers to sign the membership cards, which entitles the union to skim money from workers’ paychecks for life.

Then, too they also have an intern program running in conjunction with the election.

The good news is enormous resources in terms of money and manpower are being redirected away from the front lines of the political arena to prevent the Freedom Foundation from drilling holes in SEIU’s seemingly bottomless treasure chest.

But it isn’t working.

The Freedom Foundation was able to gain access to the SEIU 925 membership list via a public records request. We used that list to inform each “member” of their right to opt-out, and the results speak for themselves.

Fewer than half of the state’s in-home childcare providers still pay membership dues. Maybe this is why it appears SEIU 925 is focusing on hiring a media communications organizer to launch an online propaganda war. The job pays $46,422 plus benefits.

Although the Freedom Foundation has only been operating in Oregon for two months, SEIU is already gearing up for a battle it cannot win. In that state, SEIU 503 is recruiting “organizers” at a salary of up to $75,000 annually and full benefits.

Our game plan is simple:

Educate
Activate
Legislate
Litigate

We continuously travel the state to educate and motivate people to get involved by lobbying their local elected officials or running for office themselves.

Our training and speeches are so good SEIU pays its employees to attend and record them.

The Freedom Foundation has backed 16 bills and testified in legislative hearings. 14 of these have either passed out of committees or through the state Senate.

Winning lawsuits against SEIU and other government unions are obvious examples of how the Freedom Foundation is winning this fight. One of our latest lawsuits against SEIU 775 would eliminate the Opt-Out scheme, costing the union around $300,000 monthly.

With battles being waged on all fronts, one thing is certain: The Freedom Foundation is clearly winning the overall war on educating people about their right to stop funding a hyper-partisan political racket.

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