An Address by Reed Larson President, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Claremont Institute Los Angeles, California October 9, 1996 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm particularly glad to be here today and to see the presence of so many thoughtful and influential citizens devoting your attention to the misuse of union dues for politics. I've been working at this problem for more than forty years, having decided many years ago that, unless we curtail the excessive political power of organized labor, the free enterprise system as we know it is destined for extinction in our country. I think it would be useful in the context of our discussion today for me to recap a bit of the history of litigation against the misuse of union dues for politics.
Testimony of Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., Vice President & Staff Attorney, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Thursday, May 10, 2001
by Charles W. BairdCharles W. Baird is a professor of economics anddirector of the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies,California State University at Hayward.Executive Summary On April 13, 1992, in what many consider to be nothing more than an act of political opportunism, President Bush issued Executive Order 12800, which requires all federal contractors to inform their employees of their "Beck rights." The order stems from a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Com- munication Workers of America v. Beck, in which the Court declared that employees forced to pay union dues under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do not have to contribute to a union's partisan political activities. The Communica- tion Workers of America had been using as much as 79 percent
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