Janiversary: Celebrating Two Years of Freedom

Janiversary: Celebrating Two Years of Freedom

Janiversary: Celebrating Two Years of Freedom

Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to force government employees to join or pay dues to a government union.

Unfortunately, the rights affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME are worthless if public employees are kept in the dark and the court ruling goes unenforced – and you can bet labor leaders are trying every trick in the book to make sure that happens.

That’s where we come in.

Your Freedom Foundation is a national organization committed to holding government union bosses accountable to the law set by Janus – a full-time job, indeed.

In just two years, your Freedom Foundation has made tens thousands of in-person office and home visits; sent millions of emails, mail pieces and text messages; conducted dozens of media interviews; erected billboards and aired radio and television ads.

We’ve directly helped more than 75,000 public employees leave their unions, and are engaged in 66 lawsuits representing many other thousands who are being held hostage by their union leaders.

Meet Freedom Foundation staff in this new video celebrating the second anniversary of Janus freedom for all government employees.

Vice President of Communication and Federal Affairs
Ashley Varner brings a variety of public affairs experience and a tough skin to the Freedom Foundation team. Prior to joining the Freedom Foundation, Ashley spent many exciting, turbulent and wonderful years as a media spokesperson and state government liaison at the National Rifle Association. Following her tenure at the NRA, Ashley joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where she worked with state and local lawmakers across the country on a diverse set of policy and communications issues. A grassroots activist from a young age, Ashley joined her first of many political campaigns before graduating high school and organized protests across the street from her own professors at the University of Missouri. When not rabble-rousing against Big Government, Ashley enjoys cooking, mafia movies, and has seen most of the 1970s and 80s classic rock bands still on tour. She loves the Chiefs, hopes someday she can love her Mizzou Tigers again, and she was a Kansas City Royals fan and Patriot Act opponent before either was cool.