**Springfield, VA (December 15, 2006)** – The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation announced today that it has hired Matthew C. Muggeridge, a newly sworn in member of the Maryland State Bar and graduate of the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“Matthew C. Muggeridge brings to National Right to Work a real commitment to helping employees fight back against the abuses of compulsory unionism,” said Ray LaJeunesse, vice president and legal director of the National Right to Work Foundation.

As the newest of the Foundation’s ten staff attorneys, Muggeridge will help build on the Foundation’s successful litigation record on behalf of union-abused workers that includes 13 cases at the United States Supreme Court. Currently National Right to Work staff attorneys are representing 4,000 teachers in the case of *Davenport v. WEA*, which is scheduled to be argued before the High Court in January.

As a fluent Spanish speaker, Muggeridge’s addition to the staff increases the Foundation’s ability to aid Spanish speaking workers that have been victimized by compulsory unionism abuses. Additionally, Muggeridge will assist the Foundation’s cutting-edge efforts to curb workers’ rights abuses under coercive “card-check” or “top-down” union organizing schemes.

In recent years, Foundation attorneys have persuaded the National Labor Relations Board to re-evaluate the legality of these increasingly abusive union organizing tactics and have utilized cutting-edge legal strategies to protect employees from these coercive tactics which deny employees basic protections in choosing whether to unionize.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Muggeridge served as a Senior Associate for the High Park Advocacy Group in Toronto, Canada. Muggeridge also spent a year teaching at Dulwich College in London, England.

Muggeridge holds a Bachelors of Philosophy degree from Gregorian University where he graduated summa cum laude. He also holds a Post Graduate Degree in Education from King’s College in London.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in about 200 cases nationwide per year.