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Freedom Foundation Tries Desperately To Break Workplace Democracy in Artesia

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Tom McCabe, Freedom Foundation President   Artesia, California - Sitting in front of Artesia City Hall, a college student in his 20s passes out flyers suggesting that city employees not pay their union dues. However, a brief conversation with the union’s president revealed that the  student volunteer had been lied to. When a union member asked what he was doing, the student  said that the Freedom Foundation had convinced him that unions are unfairly using member money to finance political campaigns, and that the best way to counter that was for union members to opt out of their union dues. The Freedom Foundation is an organization funded by conservative billionaires with the intent of weakening worker resolve, and creating a cheap and underpaid workforce. Artesia union members were kind to the gentleman, but notified AFSCME Local 1520 President Andrew Perry that someone was passing the information out. "I spoke to the guy for about five minutes," said Perry, "and what w...