Freedom Foundation will Back Up Its Rhetoric by Working on Labor Day

Now THAT'S dedication.  The Freedom Foundation — a Washington State Astroturf group funded by the Koch Brothers and ALEC — is going to live up to its union-busting rhetoric by having a “work-in” on Labor Day.

Oh My God, these guys are serious!  Tote that file!  Lift that briefcase!  Shuffle those papers!  And don't forget the ever-present danger of a paper cut.  There's a lot of grueling work involved if you want to sabotage the lives of people who actually work for a living.

Freedom Foundation CEO Tom McCabe said:

“I can’t think of a problem in society that can’t be traced in some way back to the abuses of organized labor, so it would be hypocritical of us to take a day off on its behalf.”

The Freedom Foundation calls labor unions “a disease that's running rampant in Washington State.”

Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat responded with:

“What’s odd about it, though, is that only 12 percent of American workers even belong to unions anymore. Yet we — I say ‘we’ because I’m in that 12 percent — somehow retain an almost supernatural mind-meld authority over the oppressed and hapless other 88 percent.”