(The Center Square) – The Freedom Foundation has lost a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle, to defend the Foundation’s right to offer a counterbalance to union practices during new employee orientations.
State laws and unions’ collective bargaining agreements allow union officers exclusive access to newly hired employees.
In those meetings, new hires learn about union benefits and procedures, but the Foundation argued they often turn into high-pressure sales pitches for union membership.
In March 2021, during an orientation for new hires with the Washington’s State Department of Labor and Industry, the Washington Federation of State Employees’ (WFSE) presentation included a series of attacks directed at the Freedom Foundation.
“The union was not using the meeting just to inform employees about union related matters, they were using it to attack the Freedom Foundation,” said foundation attorney Tim Snowball in a Friday interview with The Center Square.