On Friday, August 21, 2015, the Daily Caller published a piece called "Right-To-Work In Missouri Depends On A Handul of Republican Legislators" by the CWF's research fellow Samantha Zinnen.

In the piece, Zinnen writes about Missouri’s next best chance to pass right-to-work:

Missouri lawmakers have an opportunity to make a bold play for the state’s economy by passing right-to-work.

Right-to-work legislation, which outlaws forced

Recently the CWF was quoted exclusively in the Washignton Times. Jeffrey Scott Shapiro quoted our executive director, Matt Patterson, in his piece, "United Farm Workers, founded by Cesar Chavez, in standoff with Gerawan Farming" that was published Wednesday, August 19, 2015. 

Shapiro quoted Patterson in part as saying, "these workers know what they’re doing. They don’t want to give their money to the unions, and even more important, it’s about freedom. The union wants 3 percent of their pay.”

Big Labor's latest attack on Right-to-Work is wrong - and outrageous

The Center for Worker Freedom has learned that union supporters have been circulating in Kentucky a ridiculous article called, “What’s Wrong with ‘Right-to-Work’: Exposing the Racist Legacy and Corporate America’s Agenda.”  

Sean Higgins, writing for the Washington Examiner, recently quoted the CWF in an August 12, 2015 piece.

“Matt Patterson, executive director of conservative Center for Worker Freedom, said the $15 minimum wage movement is mostly driven by unions. ‘The Obama administration and the Democrat Party — dependent on the millions of dollars that unions funnel to progressive causes and candidates every election cycle — are clearly being wagged by that particularly rabid dog.’"

Grover Norquist invited Matt Patterson, the Center for Worker Freedom executive director, on the Grover Norquist Show earlier today to give an update about the plight of the Gerawan farmworkers. 

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On August 3, 2015, Connor Wolf of the Daily Caller reported on the ongoing legal battle for the local right-to-work option in Kentucky. Wolf quoted our executive director, Matt Patterson, in the piece.

“Matt Patterson, executive director for Center for Worker Freedom (CWF), is optimistic the courts will side with the counties.

“We’ll have a decision sometime in September,” Patterson told The DCNF. “We feel very good about what is happening in Kentucky.”

The UAW’s president owes his bad week to the Michigan Supreme Court, Mitsubishi, and the implications for the ongoing Big Three contract negotiations

On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 the Michigan Supreme Court stuck a blow against forced unionization for state employees with a 4-3 ruling. 

Camille Paglia, the sometimes-infuriating but always-fascinating liberal lioness, takes on the issue of public-sector unions in the third part of a wide-ranging interview at Solon.com:

"[Scott] Walker is a very talented and combative politician, with far more substance than liberals are allowing for.

Unions Fight for 15 for everyone but them. 

The battle for an increase in the minimum wage has been aggressively fought by the Left for the past several years. Leading the charge has been none other than the purse of the Democratic Party: Big Labor.

Ignoring the negative economic repercussions that accompany raising the minimum wage – job losses, and more part-time and less full-time positions – there is a less talked-about problem.

On July 20, POLITICO’s Morning Shift reported on the CWF’s exclusive footage of labor leader Dolores Huerta bullying a farmworker at a party in Sacramento.

The farmworker, Silvia Lopez, is the leader of the workers attempting to decertify from Huerta’s United Farm Workers (UFW).

Politico contextualized the incident by saying:

The CWF is helping Lopez and her co-workers at Gerawan Farming in Fresno in a fight to decertify the UFW. Huerta, presumably, doesn’t like that — hence the arm block.