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A Falsie Would Fit Corporate Hack Rick Berman—Cast Your Vote Now |
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Corporate lobbyist Richard Berman really should get the recognition he deserves for his PR campaigns that have slammed Mothers Against Drunk Driving on behalf of the alcohol industry and encouraged pregnant women to eat potentially mercury-laden tuna at the behest of the seafood industry.
Now, he can—with your help.
Each year, the Center for Media and Democracy/PR Watch sponsors the “Falsies Awards” contest to shine an unflattering light on those responsible for polluting our information environment—you know, those high-paid corporate mouthpieces who have truth-telling issues. Berman is one of several nominees for a Falsie.
Berman most recently has spent his time—and millions in corporate cash—on a deceptive ad campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act. As our friends at PR Watch describe his anti-worker, anti-union media campaign:
Corporate lobbyist Rick Berman was busy throughout 2008, though his sustained and frequent use of front groups over the years may earn him a Lifetime Achievement Falsie. As the U.S. elections approached, Berman’s Center for Union Facts lobbied against labor rights legislation, claiming it would allow “union bosses” to “use coercion.”
Another Berman front group, the Employment Policies Institute, took out a full-page New York Times ad in October 2008, denouncing the community organizing group ACORN as hypocrites. In response to evidence linking tanning beds and skin cancer, Berman accused the “sunscam industry” of “hyping” health concerns. The Center for Consumer Freedom, perhaps Berman’s most well-known front group, railed against nutritional disclosure policies while plastering the Washington, DC subway with billboards demonizing unions and lawyers.
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after looking at the survey, i do question one entry’s intent. and that is the one involving the ‘do not mail’ lists. as a retired postal worker and 25+ year APWU member, i am apalled to see that our democrats support such a move as this. bulk mail makes up a large portion of the mail the USPS delivers and income for the USPS, and its employees, us. there is talk of laying off 4,000 union workers from the USPS workforce this year; the first since our union contracts were put into existance. and think of the many other jobs affected by this twisted thinking. growing pulp trees is green, enviromentally friendly, and provides many jobs down the line. as a union worker, i can only say that reconsideration of a ‘falsie’ should be given elsewhere.
sincerely,
cajunsr.
APWU retiree, local 259