According to its website, the Washington State Labor Council, AFL0-CIO, is composed of 600 local unions affiliated with the WSLC representing approximately 400,000 rank-and-file union members working in our state. The WSLC is the largest labor organization in our state..”

Sounds pretty formidable, doesn’t it?

But who keeps these big, bad bullies up at night? One, lone nonprofit think tank with fewer than 30 employees, that’s who.

On July 30, the union announced it had drafted a resolution specifically referencing the Freedom Foundation’s efforts to expose its lies and intimidation tactics.

Ratified at the WSLC’s July 24 annual meeting, Resolution 17 was titled, “Protection of Washington Working Families: Stop Freedom Foundation (EFFers) and Right-to-Work.”

The declaration is a masterpiece of distortion in the best traditions of organized labor that isn’t eight words old before it spouts a bold-faced lie. To wit:

“WHEREAS, the Freedom Foundation (Effers) is an outside agitator coming into our state determining our community values, and we could spend our precious resources and money on lawsuits and not on our critical public services…”

Agitators? Certainly. But outside? The Freedom Foundation was founded right here in Washington 24 years ago, and promoting community values – rather than what benefits a far-Left special interest group – is precisely our aim.

There’s more.

“WHEREAS, the Washington State Labor Council and many unions have worked to stop Freedom Foundation (Effers) and ‘Right-to-Work’ laws…”

This part is demonstrably true. WSLC – and lots of other unions – are working very hard to battle the Freedom Foundation and prevent public-sector workers from having a choice as to whether to join a union or not.

And every resource – time or money – they devote to fighting us is one they can’t spend to elect government-growing, freedom-eroding liberal candidates.

Moving on:

“WHEREAS, we need living-wage jobs in our community now and for our future…”

True enough. But what do same-sex marriage, abortion on demand, Jay Inslee’s radical environmental agenda or any of the myriad other liberal causes organized labor actively supports with forcibly extracted worker dues have to do with family-wage jobs?

“WHEREAS, the Freedom Foundation (Effers) wants to steal our good jobs, enact “Right-to-Work,” make our jobs unsafe and keep everyday Americans from having a voice and a vote …”

We want to keep everyday Americans from having a vote? Which side is filing lawsuits left and right to deny its own “members” the right to make their own choices about representation?

If workers honestly believed this baloney, labor leaders would have to lie to keep people out of unions, not in.

“WHEREAS, the Freedom Foundation (Effers) just wants to rig the system, use hatred to divide our state and profit off the best interest of Washingtonians and we can’t let this happen here, we are not Wisconsin…”

Rig the system? Seriously? Coming from the people who currently get to negotiate their own collective bargaining agreements – in secret – with the very governor they spent millions dollars to elect, that charge is beyond laughable.

“WHEREAS, we need to fight back and hold the Freedom Foundation (Effers) and our politicians who want to enact ‘Right-to-Work’ accountable and also educate ourselves about the Freedom Foundation (Effers) and what ‘Right-to-Work’ would do to our state…”

Hold accountable? Sounds like a threat, doesn’t it?

“RESOLVED, that  the Washington State Labor Council will develop educational tools and a road show on the deception of Freedom Foundation (Effers), and other like-minded organizations, and the damage of ‘Right-to-Work’ and also then train the trainers to teach the material and provide educational tools at such road shows to educate ourselves…”

Who’s deceiving who? Again, the Freedom Foundation’s goal is simply to give workers a choice. What they do with that choice is up to them.

We couldn’t be more forthcoming about our objectives, which is more than the union dons can say. They’re the ones scorching earth and dragging their feet to keep the workers from understanding their constitutional rights, not us.

“RESOLVED, that the Washington State Labor Council will work to hold politicians who want to enact “Right-to-Work” accountable and use media to educate how these politicians are failing our state; and be it further…

“RESOLVED, that locals and affiliates work to identify and report local political candidates who support or endorse the Freedom Foundation (Effers) goals and policies to WSLC leadership; and be it further …

RESOLVED, that affiliates and locals oppose political candidates running for local office who support or endorse Freedom Foundation (Effers) goals and policies…

Threats, threat and more threats. When all else fails, resort to intimidation. It’s what the unions do best.

And finally, the resolution concludes with:

“RESOLVED, that the Washington State Labor Council will educate the public about and seek to expose corporate lobbyists who are masking themselves as nonprofits, such as the Freedom Foundation (Effers), in service of an anti-worker agenda.”

Freedom of choice is anti-worker?

And speaking of masking their true lobbying agenda, let’s not forget that the Freedom Foundation just this past week filed a complaint with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office against SEIU 775 citing serial violations of the state’s Public Disclosure Act, including trying to camouflage its nakedly liberal lobbying efforts under the cloak of worker advocacy.

Pot meet kettle.