WISCONSIN m- JUDGE IS PRO-UNION AND MUST BE UNSEATED

Dear Conservatives, 

The battle in Wisconsin didn't end when Governor Scott Walker won the recall election this June.

All along, the union bosses have had a "Plan B" just in case the people of Wisconsin rejected their political schemes -- and your National Right to Work Foundation has been fighting back every step of the way.

On Monday, a Foundation staff attorney is scheduled to appear at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago in a case brought by teacher union lawyers seeking to overturn Wisconsin's government-sector Right to Work law.

Not only that, with free legal aid from Foundation staff attorneys, a Wisconsin teacher has asked the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission to enforce the law after a local teacher union refused to honor her right to refrain from joining the union and paying union fees.

You and I both know how crucial it is to ensure these reforms are fully defended and enforced.

If the union bosses manage to gut the Wisconsin Right to Work law for civil servants, they'll take aim at all Right to Work laws across the country next.


You see, the union bosses are desperately throwing out as many legal challenges and bogus arguments as they can hoping that one will eventually stick and Big Labor can go back to forcing public employees to pay union dues or be fired.

And sometimes all it takes is picking the right judge.

A Wisconsin state judge recently issued a ruling against the reforms -- and he even bought the union lawyers' spurious argument that a Right to Work law violates Big Labor's freedom of association.

But the courts have long upheld Right to Work laws while acknowledging the fundamental conflict between compulsory unionism and freedom of association.

And even though courts have never completely struck down forced-dues schemes, they've repeatedly made it clear that union bosses have no "right" to seize dues from unwilling workers.

In 2007, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the Foundation-won Davenport v. Washington Education Associationdecision that, because unions have no constitutional right to collect fees from nonmembers, a state may require unions to obtain consent before spending nonmember government employees' forced fees on political activities.

Defending the 23 state Right to Work laws -- and Foundation-won precedents like Davenport -- is a crucial component of the Foundation's strategic litigation program made possible by the generosity of Right to Work supporters like you.

So please, chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more today to help us keep up the fight.

Sincerely,
 
Mark Mix

P.S. The Foundation relies completely on voluntary contributions from its supporters to provide free legal aid.

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