Union-Busters EXPOSED (Berman’s extensive money trail.)

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/09/13/union-busters-exposed/

Recently it seems like there has been more anti-union, anti-worker slime than usual oozing out of familiar corporate mouthpieces such as the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Such groups are also likely among the multimillion dollar backers of the egregiously misnamed Center for Union Facts, launched in February by sleaze propagandist Richard Berman. Among Berman’s list of hatchet jobs is a PR campaign to slam Mothers Against Drunk Driving on behalf of the alcohol industry and another literally toxic campaign for the tuna industry encouraging pregnant women to eat tuna—never mind the mercury.

Today, the workers’ rights organization American Rights at Work launched a great new Web-based resource tool that counters the anti-worker lies and twisted information. The Anti-Union Network offers profiles of anti-union organizations with details on their lobbying, litigation and media outreach, as well as their connections to each other.



The site launched with a feature of Berman’s operations and highlights a diagram of Berman’s extensive money trail.

In addition to being a great resource tool that includes background on union-busting and union-buster techniques, Anti-Union Network offers an up-to-date news feed and an e-mail sign-up.

Visit the Anti-Union Network directly at: http://www.antiunionnetwork.org/.

Beware, though. The site isn’t for the faint-hearted: It includes mugs of Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, Jesse Helms and others who spend their time slamming the interests of America’s workers.