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Jeff Rhodes
Vice President for News and Information
Jeff is a native of West Virginia and a graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in journalism. He served in the U.S. Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., as a broadcast journalist and has worked at a number of newspapers in West Virginia and Washington.
Most recently, he spent 11 years as editor of the Port Orchard (Wash.) Independent, which earned the 2011 Washington Newspaper Publishers’ Association’s General Excellence Award as the top community newspaper in Washington.
Previously, he was editor of the Business Examiner newspaper in Tacoma, Wash., for seven years.
Jeff lives in Lacey; he and his wife have grown twin daughters.
Ex-union Boss Now Earning Her Living Demonizing The Freedom Foundation
On the one hand, if not for the organization’s efforts to inform home-based family child care providers represented by SEIU 925 about the 2014 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Harris v. Quinn that recognized their right to opt out of all union dues and fees, Cook might still be the union’s president.
Freedom Foundation Awash in National Media Coverage
The war to curb the excesses of public-sector unions has witnessed two cataclysmic events in the past year. First, the U.S. Supreme Court, fortified by the addition of a new conservative justice labor leaders could never in their worst nightmares have anticipated, this summer issued its long-awaited ruling in Janus v. AFSCME eliminating the burden mandatory dues or fees for millions of government employees across the country.
WFSE’s Devereux agrees to debate Janus and it doesn’t end well
It’s obvious now why union leaders — all of them, seemingly — have declined numerous requests dating back several years to debate the issue of compulsory dues with a representative of the Freedom Foundation.
Dinesh D’Souza lauds Freedom Foundation at annual banquet
In the ongoing struggle against the “gangster-like” tactics of the political Left, Dinesh D’Souza relishes warriors who aren’t afraid to occasionally play by the same rules and with the same passion.
Susan McCabe and the letter that launched 300 opt-outs
Susan, the wife of Freedom Foundation CEO Tom McCabe, responded to NWAP’s most recent mail and telephone slander campaign by fighting fire with fire.
6,000 workers freed, Rolf ousted: SEIU 775’s Legacy of Failure Continues.
SEIU 775’s most recent legal humiliation, being forced to finally concede that workers who never joined the union in the first place cannot be forced to pay dues, is an embarrassment for more than just the union itself.
Freedom Foundation website records its 11,250th opt-out
Our friends at the union front group calling itself the Northwest Accountability Project maintain a permanent, paid, online advertisement that describes the Freedom Foundation’s outreach efforts to public employees as “…yet another in a long line of their failures.”
Freedom Foundation staff spends the day spreading the word
Freedom Foundation staff was walking the streets of Pierce County on Aug. 6 telling teachers what their union won’t – that they’re no longer required to pay monthly dues or fees to a corrupt oligarchy whose values they don’t share.
Freedom Foundation banquet to feature Dinesh D’Souza
Not since 1860, Dinesh D’Souza believes, have Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election.
State and unions warned not to deduct dues from workers who haven’t opted in since Janus ruling
Washington state’s governor and budget director were served notice on Tuesday that the state’s immediate response to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling in Janus v. AFSCME falls far short of what the law actually calls for.
