Freedom Foundation Files Lawsuits to Protect Public Employees from Union Forgery

Ashley Varner
January 31, 2020

Government employee union bosses love to brag of the deep concern they have for their members and insist the dues they pilfer from hardworking Americans’ paychecks are a mere drop in the bucket compared to the benefits they receive in return.

Their façade is exposed, however, when the unions decide that what’s actually in the best interest of the public sector employees is to commit forgery.

This week, Freedom Foundation filed two lawsuits in Washington and one in Oregon on behalf of public sector employees who were not only denied their constitutionally protected rights to opt out of union membership and dues, but who also had their names forged on the documents that authorized their paycheck deductions in the first place.

Freedom Foundation’s Sydney Phillips explains the lawsuits here:

- Litigation, Oregon, Washington

Ashley Varner

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.