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2000 PRESS RELEASES/ADVISORIES
EFF calls for thorough
investigation of WEA
December 29, 2000
Fearing another backroom settlement negotiation between the Attorney General
and Washington Education Association officials in a recent campaign finance
lawsuit, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation has taken out ads in major dailies
around the state calling for a thorough investigation and a stiff penalty
against the union...
Some talk isn’t cheap
December 19, 2000
Governor Locke’s new $22,725,900,000 budget proposal (General Fund State), released this morning, is a nice public relations piece, but it doesn’t measure up to state law...
Teachers’ rights protected
December 12, 2000
In an enforcement hearing this morning the state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) voted unanimously to fine the Vancouver School District $1000 for failing to have PAC withholding authorization forms from teachers on file for public inspection...
AG Takes WEA to Court Again for New Campaign Finance Violations
October 9, 2000
Only two weeks after the Washington Education Association (WEA) sent a letter to all its members stating it was in full compliance with state campaign finance laws, the AG has filed a suit in the Thurston County Superior Court alleging otherwise...
PDC Finds WEA Guilty of Multiple Violations
September 26, 2000
In a unanimous decision today the state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) found the Washington Education Association (WEA) guilty of using teachers’ wages for politics when it "did not have affirmative authorization from agency fee payers to use their money for these purposes."
Teachers’ Rights Protected
August 30, 2000
In an enforcement hearing yesterday the state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) voted unanimously to fine the Castle Rock School District $2500 for not having authorization from teachers before deducting money from their paychecks for the Washington Education Association’s political action committee (WEA-PAC)...
Gregoire Has 45 Days to Decide if She’ll Help Teachers
August 11, 2000
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation sent notice today asking Attorney General Christine Gregoire and state county prosecutors to uphold teachers’ rights by taking legal action to enforce Washington’s paycheck protection law according to the recent high court ruling...
NEA Calls Teachers’ Rights "A Royal Pain in the A—"
August 10, 2000
The National Education Association is having trouble enforcing its political plan in Washington state because teachers’ paychecks are protected here...
Court Puts School Districts Under the Gun
June 30, 2000
In the wake of a recent state Supreme Court ruling, each of Washington’s 296 school districts is being notified this week of its legal responsibility to protect teachers’ wages from unauthorized union political activity...
Gregoire, Call Off the
Dogs in Microsoft Suit!
June 22, 2000
The National Association of Attorneys General will host its Summer Meeting
in Seattle June 21-24. As NAAG’s president, Washington Attorney General
Christine Gregoire has been asked to use her influence to intervene and
encourage the nineteen state attorneys general who are suing Microsoft to
drop the antitrust case...
Court Dismisses Last of WEA’s Retaliatory Suit
June 9, 2000
On Friday, June 9, Judge William T. McPhee dismissed the last of 12 charges filed against the Evergreen Freedom Foundation by the Washington Education Association, ending a three-year court battle...
Supreme Court Ruling: Good News and Bad News: Paycheck Protection Upheld, But Union Off the Hook
May 18, 2000
In a complex decision released today, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that school districts must protect employee paychecks from political withholding if the districts have actual notice that wages are being used for political purposes...
Gregoire asked to end
Microsoft lawsuit
May 9, 2000
Today Evergreen Freedom Foundation President Bob Williams called on Washington
state Attorney General Christine Gregoire to intervene in the Microsoft
antitrust action and encourage the nineteen state Attorneys General who
are suing Microsoft to drop the case...
WEA drops countersuit against the Evergreen Freedom Foundation
April 25, 2000
On Monday, April 24, the Washington Education Association (WEA) notified the court that it will dismiss all claims in its longstanding countersuit against the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, an Olympia-based public policy organization...
School Districts as PAC collectors
February 7 , 2000
Four school districts investigated by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation currently withhold funds from teachers’ paychecks for a political action committee without ever verifying that the deduction was authorized by these teachers...
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