FreedomTalks

Amanda Carpenter over at TownHall.com wrote a story about how our supporters were bullied at yesterday’s union rally.

Big Labor bussed thousands of activists to Capitol Hill Tuesday to lobby for the Employee Free Choice Act—an act union leaders have called their top legislative priority for the 110th Congress.

Event organizers claimed they brought 2,000 participants on 62 busses from the Campaign for America’s Future’s “Take Back America” conference to the Upper Senate Park.

Brendan Steinhauser, grassroots manager of FreedomWorks, a non-profit that also opposes the Employee Free Choice Act, protested the rally with signs. He was physically confronted by union workers. Steinhauser said he was pushed and that one of Freedomworks’ female interns had her hair pulled.

Steinhauser said, “It’s ironic that the unions claim they were rallying against worker intimidation when they sought to intimidate FreedomWorks supporters by trashing our signs, pushing us, and threatening us with physical violence. They were not interested in any democratic debate, and only representatives from the Socialist Workers Party would actually talk to us.”

FreedomWorks plans to post video footage of their confrontational interactions with union supporters.

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