Freedom Foundation One Of Statesman Journal’s Top 10 Stories Of 2015

Jeff Rhodes
January 14, 2016

It’s been a busy few months since we opened our office on Aug.13 last year in Salem, Ore. Since our opening, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit and begun educating unionized state workers about their rights and how to opt out of the union if they choose to.

We’ve also caught the eye of the media, who’ve written numerous articles and opinion pieces related to our work.

Perhaps one of the most telling signs of our impact is the (Salem) Statesman Journal‘s Top 10 Oregon stories of 2015.

The Freedom Foundation is No. 6 on their list: Union Battle Intensifies.

The Freedom Foundation is committed to helping free members from the unions’ forced association and we measure our success by how many union members we have helped leave the union.

But we think making a list of top stories in Oregon after only a few months of work speaks volumes about our progress.

- Labor, Oregon
, Oregon

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.