Poll Headlines National Employee Freedom Week Effort to Educate Union Employees About Rights
NASHVILLE
– In celebration of National Employee Freedom Week, the Beacon Center
of Tennessee will be running a week-long public awareness effort, which
will focus on giving teachers across the state the information and
resources needed to opt out of their union.
“The
teachers’ unions continue to make the process of opting out difficult
and complicated,” said Beacon CEO Justin Owen. "We believe opting out
should be simple, and we are here to help clarify the process for those
teachers who would rather keep their hard-earned money than give it to
an extreme, far-left organization.” Owen noted that the states’ union
has advocated for a state income tax along with other views completely
out of the mainstream.
A
new poll shows that 81% of Tennessee residents support allowing union
employees to leave their union without force or penalty, a concept
generally referred to as right-to-work. This poll was released as part
of National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW). The full results of the poll,
released yesterday, can be found here.
This
poll headlines the activities of NEFW, which runs from August 10 to 16,
2014. NEFW is a coalition of 77 organizations in 44 states that are
conducting widespread outreach to inform union employees about their
rights to opt out of union membership.
Unions
often do as little as is required by law to inform their employees that
they have the right to opt out. But as previous NEFW polling
illustrates, over 33 percent of
those in union households want to leave. Therefore, educational efforts
similar to what Beacon is doing this week are absolutely necessary to
inform and educate union members about their workplace rights and
empower them to make the decision about union membership that's best for
them.
The
Beacon Center empowers Tennesseans to reclaim control of their lives,
so that they can freely pursue their version of the American Dream.
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