**Springfield, VA (August 24, 2006)** – Experts from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation will be available for comment and interviews on and around Labor Day about workers’ rights, union political activities leading up to midterm elections, union organizing, corruption, violence, and other issues relating to organized labor in America. The Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides free legal aid to victims of compulsory unionism abuse, and the only national group of this kind.

Foundation experts have been interviewed on national television and radio programs, including The O’Reilly Factor, Special Report with Brit Hume, CNBC’s Closing Bell, and on CNN. Their writings frequently appear in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, and numerous other publications. They are prepared to comment on or debate any issues related to the following:

• Big Labor’s political efforts to install a majority in Congress sympathetic to expanding union special privileges during the 2006 mid-term election cycle;

• How the Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board has delayed rulings on many of the most cutting-edge cases in American labor law – allowing union officials to step up their aggressive organizing tactics which often violate workers’ rights;

• Organized labor’s war on the secret ballot election process for workers choosing whether to unionize, increasing use of coercive “card check” organizing campaigns against workers, and “corporate campaigns” to embarrass and bully nonunion companies;

• How Big Labor’s political agenda is often out of step with many rank-and-file workers’ beliefs;

• The growing support for job-producing Right to Work laws that make union membership and dues payment strictly voluntary;

• Examples of workers’ rights abuse resulting from forced union dues, union violence, violations of religious freedom, and other infringements of employees’ individual rights;

• How teacher union officials have contributed to a decline in public education while blocking efforts at reform.

To schedule an interview – or for more information – call Justin Hakes at 703-770-3317 or send him an email.

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.