National Right to Work Committee

The National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC), headquartered in Virginia, describes itself as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organization dedicated to the principle that all Americans must have the right to join a union if they choose to, but none should ever be forced to affiliate with a union in order to get or keep a job."

According to its 2007 financial report, NRTWC is related to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, sharing facilities and employees with the group. NRTWC shares facilities and employees with the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation. In 2007, NRTWC also reported that its taxable subsidiary, Liberty Phone Center, had $1,179,825 in income in 2007.

Issues
NRTWC opposes the Employee Free Choice Act, calling it "forced unionism" and claiming that it would "empower union bosses to force a business's employees to accept a union as their exclusive bargaining agent solely through the acquisition of signed union authorization cards from employees in a particular bargaining unit."

NRTWC opposed the nomination of then-Congresswoman Hilda Solis as President Barack Obama's Labor Secretary. NRTWC's Mark Mix called Solis "a die-hard forced unionism activist who apparently believes that all workers should be gathered into union collectives whether they like it or not." An NRTWC press release stated, "The U.S. Department of Labor is not supposed to be the U.S. Department of Big Labor. The Labor secretary should be on the side of workers, not union bosses who seek to trample workers' rights."

In Colorado in 2008, NRTWC spent $300,000 in support of a "right to work" state ballot measure.

Lobbying and political action committees
NRTWC spent $1,440,000 on lobbying in 2007, and $930,000 in 2008, according to its lobbying disclosure reports. In its 2007 financial report to the IRS, NRTWC reported $4,871,212 in "lobbying and political expenses." NRTWC's in-house lobbyists are Richard J. Clair, Jeddidiah Coburn, Dimitri N. Kesari, Raymond J. LaJeunesse Jr., Mark A. Mix, Douglass A. Stafford and Greg Mourad for the State Employee Rights Campaign Committee.

NRTWC runs two political action committees, the National Right to Work Committee PAC and the State Employee Rights Campaign Committee.

Personnel
NRTWC's officers, and the amount they were paid in 2007, are as follows (those with no payment specified were not compensated in 2007):
 * Charles R. Serio - Chairman of the Board of Directors
 * Cornell W. Gethmann - Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
 * Reed E. Larson - Chairman of the Executive Committee - paid $28,375 in 2007
 * Mark A. Mix - President - paid $77,309 in 2007
 * Anne M. Coulter - Secretary - paid $65,767 in 2007
 * Douglass A. Stafford - Vice President & Treasurer - paid $100,467 in 2007
 * Matthew M. Leen - Vice President & Asst. Treasurer - paid $108,164 in 2007
 * Stephen O. Goodrick - Vice President - paid $24,388 in 2007
 * L. A. Vernon - Director
 * Annabelle Fetterman - Director
 * Sandra Crandall - Director
 * R. Bruce Simpson - Director
 * Dr. James M. Baird, Jr. - Director
 * Morton C. Blackwell - Director
 * R. R. Ebbing - Director
 * Erik J. Hanson - Director
 * Franklin A. Partin, Jr. - Director
 * Greg Hagenston - Director
 * Dennis Norman - Director

Financial information
In 2007, NRTWC reported $6,636,267 in income ($6,063,520 of that came from contributions), and $6,590,980 in expenses.

In total, NRTWC paid its officers $506,444 in 2007, and its employees $2,460,084 (not including $168,429 in pension plans and $194,252 in other employee benefits). It reported having 181 employees in 2007.

NRTWC reported $4,871,212 in "lobbying and political expenses" in 2007. The group spent $165,868 on "legislative research and strategy, public relations and membership"; and gave $232,000 to other nonprofits in 2007.

Contact details
8001 Braddock Road, Suite 500 Springfield, VA 22160 Phone: (800) 325-7892 Fax: (703) 321-7342 Web: http://www.nrtwc.org

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