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http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12721/union-busting-front-group-run-super-bowl-ad
Posted by Jonas Persson on January 31, 2015
In what has become a local tradition, the front group Center for Union Facts will air an ad in Washington D.C. during Super Bowl, The New York Times reports. When the union-busting organization did the same thing three years ago, Working America took to Twitter to point out the irony of running an anti-union ad during a celebration of unionized players, referring to the NFL Players Association, which is one of the most well-known unions in America.
Center for Union Facts is a $3.5 million-a-year organization, and part of a vast web of front groups funded and controlled by PR spinmeister Rick Berman. Once dubbed Dr. Evil by CBSs 60 Minutes, Berman has launched a plethora of deceptive campaigns against industry foes, including labor unions; public-health advocates; and consumer safety, animal welfare, and environmental groups, according to watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
CMD has tracked Berman and his phony front groups for years and his deep ties to corporations and trade associations fighting better pay and benefits for working families.
FULL story at link.
Jonas Persson is a CMD research intern who is working on his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.
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