Paul Taps Longtime Anti-Union Group Exec. as Top Aide
When the Republican majorities—especially the newly elected extreme right-wing members—take control of Congress in January, they likely will quickly take aim at workers and their unions. One of the people who might be calling those shots has a long history of trying to undermine workers’ rights.
Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the poster child for the Republican tea party, appointed Doug Stafford, vice president of the slyly named National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, as his chief of staff . Described as a “long time Republican operative in Washington,” Stafford will serve as Paul’s guide to the ins and outs of Congress and help develop and set his agenda.
American Rights at Work describes the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation as part of
the country’s oldest organization dedicated solely to destroying unions. Its network consists of four organizations that share leadership, offices, resources and staff, all with the common goal of undermining workers’ freedom of association….The Foundation consistently wages litigation to weaken workers’ rights to form unions.
Anti-Union Rep Admits His Group Opposes Majority Rule
The vice president for one of the nation’s most anti-union, anti-worker organizations showed what we knew all along: Those fighting workers and their unions oppose the democratic process.
During a hearing yesterday on a House bill to expand bargaining rights for the police and firefighters, Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.) exposed the myths and lies spun by the Big Brother-named National Right to Work Committee.
Doug Stafford, the group’s vice president, attempted to portray the bill as forcing “monopoly bargaining on every police and firefighter.”
Hare, a former president of and steward for his union, would have none of it.
The bill provides unions only will be established in places where a majority of officers and firefighters choose to form one, is that correct?
Stafford:
I believe that’s true, however….
