Source: Jarol B. Manheim, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, November 2013
From the press release:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Workforce Freedom Initiative (WFI) today released a study exposing financial and organizational ties between activist foundations and many of the union front groups at the forefront of various recent protests against employers. The study, The Emerging Role of Worker Centers in Union Organizing: A Strategic Assessment, shows that from 2009-2012 alone, such foundations provided those union front organizations, also called worker centers, with over $57 million in support…. The study, completed for the U.S. Chamber by Jarol B. Manheim, Professor Emeritus of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, exposes how an extensive web of foundation support fuels prominent union front organizations. For example, the Kellogg Foundation channeled over $1.2 million to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Open Society Institute gave the National Domestic Workers Alliance $695,000, and the Rockefeller Foundation gave Restaurant Opportunities Center United $300,000. The study also examines how many union front groups receive taxpayer-funded support from the federal government. For example, the group Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York received grants totaling more than $940,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services over four years. …