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Nwlaborpress
January 30, 2018
The group began in the state of Washington in 1991 as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. For its first two decades, it functioned as a “think tank” — part of a national network of organizations funded by far-right millionaires and billionaires that seek to influence public policy by producing research papersÃÂ ...
TheStranger.com
October 26, 2017
When the anti-LGBTQ, anti-environment, union-hating Evergreen Freedom Foundation started attacking union rights for Washington workers, Jenny stepped up, working pro bono to oppose them. When the Seattle Police Department was found to be engaging in biased policing and excessive use of force,ÃÂ ...
Socialist Worker Online
October 4, 2017
HUNDREDS OF union members and supporters picketed a conference of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) in Bellevue, Washington, on September 29. The EFF is a right-wing organization that opposes unions, minimum-wage laws, spending on education and social programs, and anything elseÃÂ ...
Illinois Policy
November 6, 2016
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees claims to be seeking a “fair contract” on behalf of Illinois state workers. But the power and influence exerted by the state's largest government-worker union means the bargaining table almost always tilts in AFSCME's favor. The reality is that AFSCME is theÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
November 1, 2016
The organization (formally known as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation) has long been active in libertarian causes and anti-regulatory crusades. The group is also a member of the State Policy Network (SPN), a national web of conservative policy and advocacy organizations that have raised hundreds ofÃÂ ...
Freedom Socialist Party
September 24, 2016
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation (now the Freedom Foundation) for years smeared public school teachers and advanced proposals to ban the closed shop, where everyone at a job site pays dues to the union once it is voted in. States with closed shop laws have better wages and conditions for all workers. This is whyÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 10, 2016
For several months, Shawna Murphy, a home-based childcare provider in Seattle, had received a stream of emails, letters and robocalls – some two dozen of them – telling her she had the right to stop paying union dues. Then early one afternoon, while the six children in her charge were napping, a manÃÂ ...
PR Watch
January 8, 2016
Justice Samuel Alito has been scouring the land looking for a case to make his mark on history. Could he find a way to hold a big bank accountable for ripping off millions of consumers? Could he interpret intellectual property law to give more desperately ill people access to essential medicines? Could heÃÂ ...
Nwlaborpress
September 3, 2015
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation — a hard-line anti-union group that has afflicted unions in Washington state — has now opened up shop in Oregon, with an office, a lawsuit, and plans to harass public employee unions. As Freedom Foundation mouthpiece Jeff Rhodes put it on a blog post, “making lifeÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
August 11, 2015
The Freedom Foundation, once known as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, has been headed since 2013 by Tom McCabe, an influential political figure in Washington. McCabe once headed the Business Industry Association of Washington, which was a major campaign contributor for years.
Illinois Policy
November 6, 2016
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees claims to be seeking a “fair contract” on behalf of Illinois state workers. But the power and ...
Capital and Main
October 31, 2016
The organization (formally known as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation) has long been active in libertarian causes and anti-regulatory ...
Freedom Socialist Party
September 24, 2016
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation (now the Freedom Foundation) for years smeared public school teachers and advanced proposals to ban the closed shop, ...
PR Watch
January 8, 2016
Justice Samuel Alito has been scouring the land looking for a case to make his mark on history. Could he find a way to hold a big bank ...
Nwlaborpress
September 3, 2015
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation — a hard-line anti-union group that has afflicted unions in Washington state — has now opened up shop ...
Nwlaborpress
July 1, 2014
... at a September 5, 2013, meeting at Clark College organized by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation and the Cascade Policy Institute.
Seattle Weekly
May 27, 2014
This time she's seeking a federal restraining order against libertarian Olympia think tank the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. It has been ...
Socialist Worker Online
December 31, 1999
HUNDREDS OF union members and supporters picketed a conference of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) in Bellevue, Washington, ...
The Columbian
April 7, 2017
The Freedom Foundation (formally Evergreen Freedom Foundation), is up to its old tricks again, this time campaigning to deny child careÃÂ ...
Illinois Policy
November 6, 2016
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees claims to be seeking a “fair contract” on behalf of Illinois state workers. But the power andÃÂ ...
Capital and Main
October 31, 2016
The organization (formally known as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation) has long been active in libertarian causes and anti-regulatoryÃÂ ...
The News Tribune
October 12, 2016
O'Ban was a lawyer for the right-wing Evergreen Freedom Foundation, which got its money from the Walmart heirs, and works hard to destroyÃÂ ...
The Olympian
October 7, 2016
Deals reached this month between Gov. Jay Inslee's budget office and 38 employee unions would give pay raises to thousands of stateÃÂ ...
Freedom Socialist Party
September 24, 2016
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation (now the Freedom Foundation) for years smeared public school teachers and advanced proposals to ban the closed shop,ÃÂ ...
PR Watch
January 8, 2016
Justice Samuel Alito has been scouring the land looking for a case to make his mark on history. Could he find a way to hold a big bankÃÂ ...
Nwlaborpress
September 3, 2015
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation — a hard-line anti-union group that has afflicted unions in Washington state — has now opened up shopÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
August 11, 2015
The Freedom Foundation, once known as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, has been headed since 2013 by Tom McCabe, an influentialÃÂ ...
Seattle Weekly
May 27, 2014
This time she's seeking a federal restraining order against libertarian Olympia think tank the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. It has beenÃÂ ...
Columbia Basin Herald
October 27, 2016
Local media and the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank, supported the commissioners' resolution. The Foundation has historically supported keeping union negotiations with public employees open and transparent.
The News Tribune
October 12, 2016
O'Ban was a lawyer for the right-wing Evergreen Freedom Foundation, which got its money from the Walmart heirs, and works hard to destroy public schools and the teachers' unions by supporting charter schools.
