**Washington, DC (July 13, 2006)** – Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation, made the following statement in response to today’s protest by AFL-CIO union conglomerate professionals outside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB):

“The public shouldn’t be fooled by AFL-CIO professionals shedding crocodile tears about recent National Labor Relations Board activity. They should instead be outraged that the Bush NLRB has done almost nothing to reverse substantial damage inflicted on independent employees’ rights by the labor agency during the Clinton era.

“According to a study by Jones Day attorney G. Roger King prepared for the American Bar Association, during the period of 1994-2001, the Clinton NLRB overturned 60 long-standing cases for a jaw-dropping 1181 years of combined precedent.

“These activist rulings increased union coercive privileges, entrenched incumbent unions, sharply undercut the rights of employees who disagree with a union, and diminished employer free speech.

“Yet, the Bush NLRB has been plagued by more than 5 years of paralysis and lack of productivity. As a result, the Bush NLRB has only overturned 9 precedents in the past 5 years, and several of them were insignificant procedural rulings. The Clinton NLRB turned labor law upside down, and the Bush NLRB has yet to right the ship.

“What concerns union officials the most is that the NLRB is considering several National Right to Work Foundation cases brought for workers who are desperately seeking protection from Big Labor’s increasingly ‘in your face’ organizing tactics. In these many long-pending cases, employees are pleading for the NLRB’s protection from union coercion and relief from Big Labor’s efforts to deny employees even so much as a secret-ballot vote when choosing whether to unionize.

“While workers seeking to remain union-free face public interrogations, bribery, threats, and stalkings by union operatives during these Top Down organizing drives, the Bush NLRB has dithered. If the agency fails to rule on the workers’ cases challenging these abusive tactics, employees face the further erosion of their freedom to choose whether to unionize.”

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.