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September 26, 20IB

Dear Friend,
The time to act is

now

I

With the crucial Midterm Elections fast approachinq, the
union bosses are pouring hundreds of mifl_ions of dolfars into
the
campaigns of their pet politicians.

Their goal: To seize controf of both the U.S. House and
Senate this year and set the sta ge to recapture the White House
in
2020.

That's why your

IMMEDIATE

action is criticaÌ.

You see, I recently sent afl of your candidates for U. S.
Senate a Candidate Survey asking them to pledge 100% oppos i t ion
to forced unionlsm.

The issue is s
l-e: Should a worker be forced to pav
dues or fees to a un]-on boss just to
t or keep a iob?
Now, T have good nehrs and bad
The

in total

ne\^rs.

good nerds is, Republican Leah Vukmir has taken a stand
opposition to forced unionism.

Leah Vukmir o oses unfon monopol y bargainin g porder
supports the Freedom from Union Viofence Act and Natlonal and
Riqht
to Work Act.

But there is bad netvs, too.
Democrat Tammy BaÌdwin has, so far, faiÌed to return her
candidate Survey, and with wisconsin being a Right to Vùork
state, that potentially means real trouble.

That's whv f hope vou'll sign and mail one of the encl-osed
ostcards to Tamm Bal-dwin toda
And will

you afso ask your friends and refatives

8001 Braddock Road

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.

Springfield, virginia 22160

.

www.nrtw.org

to sign

SEN

 and mail lhe extra postcards I've enclosed?

History has taught us that whenever polit.icians try to hide
their positions on the compulsory unionism issue, it usually
means they plan to vote for Big Labor's radical agenda.
That's why j-t's critícal

you act at once.

You know as wel-l as I do the historicaf

Big Labor's forced-dues
***

consequences of

por^/er:

Nearly 10 BILLION doffars a year has been stripped
from the pockets of hardworkj-nq men and women who
money they earn
would be fired if they didn't pay
to support their families, churches and communities;
Forced unionism has been deadly to milfions of small
businesses. Union-Ìabel politiclans and bureaucrats
have stranqled businesses with confiscaLory taxes,
straitjacket requlatlons and destructive laws,
damaging our economy and drlvlng good jobs overseas or
out of existence;

***

Billions in forced-dues dollars have bankrolled
radical, Tax-and-Spend poj-iticians l-ike Barack Obama,
HilJ-ary CÌinton, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi,
resulting in out-of-control- spending, skyrocketing
taxes and soarlnq debt; and
Union thugs have terrorized workers and communities
with violent strikes where they got away with
sometlmes even murder.
beatings, arson

I'm sure

you

can see why it's vltal you insist your
opposition to ,Big Labor's forced-dues

candidates pledge total
aqenda.

Now, with the November Midterm Efectlons fast approaching,
there isn't much time

Here's how you can help:
1)

Sign and mail one of the enclosed postcards to
Democrat Tammy BaÌdwin, or better yet, write a
personal letter and qive the postcards toa friend;

2)

Ask your friends,

reÌatives

and coworkers to sign

and

 mail- the extra postcards I've enclosed;
3)

Compfete and return the enclosed Riqht to Work Repl-y

with a contribution (if you can) to
help pay for the National- Rj-ght to Work Committee/
Candidate Survey Program.

Memorandum

s

With so much on the line this vear, f 'm realJ-Y stretching
mv budqet to help keep Riqht to Work sup'oorters informed about
whi-ch of thei-r candidates stand with them and which stand with
' the union boss elite.
So, if you can hetp financially,
Whatever

wíII help.

Vou

can do

$500

,

I'd really

ç250, $100, $50

appreciate it.

or

ç25

But whatever you do, please insist u.s. Senate Democrat
incumbent Tammy Baldwin come clean on the compulsory unionism
issue and return her Candidate Survey at once.
SincereÌy,

4ø*q-Mark Mix
President
P.

S.

Democrat Tammv
of vour candidates for U.S. Senate
has so far refused to tell You and me her
Baldwin
pos ítion on the forced-unionism issue.
One

Tt's vital you put the heat on Tammy Baldwin by sending
her one of the enclosed postcards.
And pe rhaps, if vou have time, cóntact Leah Vukmir and
thank her for pÌedqinq 100% opposition to Bio Labor's

forced-dues agenda.
Please act

TODAY

!

 2018 Roster of Candidates . \Misconsin
20f 8 Candidate Survey

1. If elected, will you cosponsor

and seek roll-call
votes on legislation to repeal the provisions in
federal laws which authorize compulsory union

6.

law which impose new penalties on employers
who resist attempts by union officials to impose
compulsory unionism on their employees?

dues?

2.

3.
4.

Will you support repeal of existing federal laws
which force employees to accept a union as their
exclusive representative against their will?

7.

Do you favor preservation of Section 1a@) of
the Taft-Hartley Act, which authorizes state
Right to Work laws?

8.

If

elected, will you cosponsor and seek rollcall votes on legislation to end union officials'
special immunity from prosecution presently
enjoyed under the federal Hobbs Anti-Extortion
statute?

5.

Will you oppose any revisions to federal labor

Will you oppose legislation that

seeks to impose
a so-called "card check" procedure as a means of

unionizing employees?

Will you oppose all implementation of uniononly "Project LaborAgreements," which deny
non-union contractors and their employees the
freedom to bid on government projects?

9.

Will you oppose federal legislation that
seeks to establish or mandate union monopoly

bargaining standards on all state and local police
officers as well as firefighters?

Will you oppose the forced unionization of
federal, state, county and municipal employees?

U.S. Senate
Question

12 3

4 5 6

7 8

YYY

YYY

YYY

9

Hon. Tammy Baldwin-D
P.O. Box 696
Madison, WI53701
Leah Vukmir-R
945 Post Rd.

Brooldeld, WI53005

NOTE: The National Right to Work

Committee@, of course, endorses no candidates. We are a nonpartisan organization.
But we believe that you as a Right to Work supporter are entitled to know which candidates will support the
right of every American to eam a living -- without having to pay union bosses for the privilege.

 BACKGROUNDER

The information below is helpful in explaining the questions on the front of this form.

offices.
Recent examination of union LM-2 filings with the
Department of Labor reveal that Big Labor admits to
spending more than a BILLION dollars per election cycle

5. For many years, Congress has seen bills to authorize
the forced unionization of public employees at various
levels of government.
Several of these proposals are aimed at state, county
and municipal employees and would nulliff existing state
laws which shield public employees from union monopoly
bargaining and other forms of union coercion.
Other bills would strip postal workers and other
federal employees of the freedom to refuse to pay union
dues guaranteed by the Postal Reorganization Act of
1970 andexecutive orders dating back to the Kennedy

on political activities,

Administration.

The problem of compulsory unionism was created by
Congress. It will not be solved until Congress repeals the
existing federal atthorizations of compulsory unionism.

6.

1.

The firing of workérs who refuse to pay union clues
andlor fees is explicitly authorized and promoted by both
the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Railway

LaborAct ßfA).
Union officials use a large portion of workers'
compulsory-dues dollars for "in-kind" political spending
on goods and services to elect candidates for federal

2.

A union, under present federal laws, is empowered
to represent and bind all employees in a company's
bargaining unit -- including employees who oppose the
union and don't want its "services."
This monopoly bargaining power, generally described
as "exclusivebargaining," deprives employees of their
right to bargain for themselves. Union officials fought for
this power and refuse to give it up; yet they complain they
are "unfairly burdened by the legal obligation" to represent
non-members.
Such complaints are intended to pave the way for
forcing objecting workers to pay for representation they do

not want.

3. Twenty-seven

states have passed Right to Work laws
shielding ìwage earners covered by the NLRA from forceddues payment.
Thesé laws typically say, "No person shall be required,
as a condition or continuation of employment, to pay
any dues, fees, assessments or other similar charges,
however denominated, of any kind or amount to a labor

organization."
The authority of states to adopt and enforce such laws
is reaffirmed by Section l4(b) of the Taft-HartleyAct.

4.

Extortion, as a technique, is extremely useful to union
officials in obtaining demands for compulsory-union
shops, "agency" shops, compulsory-union hiring halls,
irrevocable dues check-offs and other coercive contract
clauses.

While most criminal law is administered at the state
and local levels, Congress has imposed federal penalties
against criminal obstruction of interstate conìmerce
(through extortion, for example), because state and local
law enforcement are often ill-equþed to restrain this type

of criminal activity.
But, as federal law currently stands, union officials
have unique immunities from prosecution for committing
or threatening to commit felonies -- such as murder,
manslaughter, maiming, arson, properfy destruction,
explosives or firearms offenses, etc. -- to block interstate
coÍìmerce if they seek to obtain "legitimate union
objectives."

Congress has considered bills that would revamp
existing federal labor law and make it much easier for
union organizers to obtain recognition as employees'
"exclusive" monopoly bargaining "tepresentatives"
-- including those employees who don't want union
"representation."
These bills would give union officials more powerful
weapons to force American workers under union
bargaining control and force them to pay union dues to

keep theirjobs.

7. Congress has previously considered legislation that
would impose the so-called "card check" process on
workers. Under "card check," union organizers are only
required to "convince" a majority of workers into signing
so-called "union authorization cards."
Independent-minded workers who choose not to
sign cards become targets of harassment, threats or even
violence.
8. Many administrations, most recently Barack Obama's,
have imposed Project LaborAgreements (PLAs) via
executive orders.
Project LaborAgreements require that private
companies bidding on government contracts sign
agreernents to force all their employees to pay union dues
and contribute to bankrupt union pension plans, from
which their employees will never receive benefits.
Amendments to appropriation bills to ban PLAs have
recently been voted on, but so far have failed to pass.

9. Legislation has been introduced in Congress
to mandate that all states impose monopoly union
representation on all local and state police, fireflghters and
emergency workers.
The legislation would ovenide several state laws that
prohibit government entities from requiring that individual
workers be represented by labor unions. Additionally, the
legislation puts the federal government bureaucracy in
charge of establishing so-called "minimum standards" and
enforcing the law.
In states where union officials have already been
granted this monopoly bargaining power, public safety
union officials simply ignore no-strike clauses and hold
taxpayers hostage until their demands ate met, virtually
always guaranteeing higher taxes for the public.

 Reply Memorandum
Mark Mix, President
National Right to Work Committee
8001 Braddock Road
Springfield, V A 22160

To

From:

Dear Mark:

I agree! It's vital all my candidates pledge total opposition
to forced unionism, that's why I have:

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Signed and mailed postcards to my candidates, urging
them to retum their Right to'Work Candidate Surveys
100% opposed to compulsory unionism.

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Written a personal letter or otherwise contacted my
candidates.

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Enclosed a contribution of:

tr $500 U $2s0 tr Sl00 tr $50 tr other
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to: NRTWC

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Dear

American should be forced to pay
a union boss just to get or keep a job.
No

So, if you haventt answered the
National- Right to Work Committee's
Candidate Survey, pledging 100% opposition
to forced unionism, please do so at once.
If you have already answered the
Candidate Survey with 100% support for
niøir,t to Work, thank you.
Sì-ncereIy,

Dear

No American should be forced to PaY

a union boss just to get or keep a job.

So, if you haven't answered the
National Right to Work Committee's
Candidate Survey, ptedging 100% opposition
to forced unionism, please do so at once.
If you have already answered the
Candidate Survey with 100% support for
Right to Vrlork, thank you.
Sincerely,

Dear

No American should be forced to pay

a union boss just to get or keep a job.

So, if you haven't answered the
National Right to Work Committee's
Candidate Survey, pledging 100% opposition
to forced unionism, please do so at once.
Tf you have already answered the
Candidate Survey with 100% support for
Right to Work, thank you.
Sincerely,

Dear