News Alert: Forty organizations join together for National Employee Freedom Week, remind workers of their options regarding union membership

Bluegrass Institute joins groups in 30 states in national campaign to promote employee freedom

(Lexington, KY )– Today, the Bluegrass Institute announced its participation in National Employee Freedom Week, a first-of-its-kind national campaign to remind union members about the freedom they have to leave their unions.

National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW) is June 23-29 and will highlight how unionized employees often don’t know that they have the legal right to opt-out of union membership. It also will help educate those employees on their options so they can make decisions about union membership that best fit their employment needs.

NEFW is a national campaign with 40 partner organizations in 30 states across the nation.

The Bluegrass Institute will celebrate NEFW by conducting outreach efforts that include providing generic opt-out letters and highlighting alternatives to union membership.

The Bluegrass Institute will also release the results of a poll of union households in Kentucky showing a startlingly high percentage of union members are interested in leaving their unions. This information will be released on Monday, June 24.“Workers need to understand their individual freedoms when employed," said Stephan F. Gohmann, Ph.D., BB&T Distinguished Professor in Free Enterprise at the University of Louisville and a member of the Bluegrass Institute Board of Scholars. "Individual liberty is an important concept that can be applied to the work environment as workers choose to opt out of their union membership and stand as individuals.”

The number of organizations participating in National Employee Freedom Week is expected to increase in the coming weeks.

More information is available at http://EmployeeFreedomWeek.com/.