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The truth about UnionFacts.com and the Center for Union Facts
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The truth about UnionFacts.com and the Center for Union Facts
From their web page
Please take note, the Center for Union Facts is not a union, we are a union watchdog. We cannot provide you with phone numbers or addresses for unions or their employees. Rick Berman is the Executive Director.
From SourceWatch
Berman and Company, a Washington, DC public affairs firm owned by lobbyist Rick Berman, represents the tobacco industry as well as hotels, beer distributors, taverns, and restaurant chains. Berman & Co. lobbies for companies such as Cracker Barrel, Hooters, International House of Pancakes, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster, Steak & Ale, TGI Friday's, Uno's Restaurants, and Wendy's. It also operates a network of several front groups, web sites, and think tanks that work to keep wages low for restaurants and to block legislation on food safety, secondhand cigarette smoke, and drunk driving.
According to a July 31, 2006, profile of Rick Berman in USA Today, Berman and Co. has 28 employees and takes in $10 million dollars a year, but "only Berman and his bookkeeper wife" know how much of the $10 million ends up in their own pockets Read more here.
Other links
Other Resources
- PR Watch first exposed the shenanigans of Berman & Co. in its First Quarter 2001 issue, including details of his lobbying activities to keep wages low and drivers drinking, as well as the cash-for-favors scandal involving Berman, Norman Brinker and Newt Gingrich
- The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and the Philip Morris documents web site have additional correspondence and company memos related to Berman & Co. To search them yourself, use the following keywords: "Guest Choice"; "American Beverage Institute"; "Berman, R"; and "Berman, RB."
- IRS tax forms for the Guest Choice Network, Center for Consumer Freedom and the Employment Policies Institute can be found by searching the GuideStar web site.
- The Chain Letter, a magazine for restaurant chains, published a profile of Rick Berman in its December 1999 issue.
- "Bogus 'Consumer' Group Stripped Of Domain Names," Center for Science in the Public Interest news release, February 20, 2003.
- ConsumerDeception.com has compiled a detailed dossier on Berman's activities and funding.
- Rod Smith, "Activists winning public opinion in battle on food", Feedstuffs, Issue 21 Volume 75, May 26, 2003.
- Mark Matthews, Lobbyists Hide Behind Non-Profit Fronts, KGO TV, San Francisco, CA, May 3, 2006
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