Our public officials and voters constantly make decisions that affect your company’s ability to do business. It is imperative that they be informed of the impact these decisions have on jobs, the local economy and our industry.  

To ensure the interests of its membership are widely known, Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) turns to the Free Enterprise Alliance. The Free Enterprise Alliance is the issue-advocacy arm of ABC. Its mission is to educate ABC members, their employees, elected officials and the general public about what is important to open competition in America.  

Your support allows the Free Enterprise Alliance to continue responding quickly to issues critical to ABC and your business. Whether it’s a largescale education campaign or the need to mobilize on-the-ground teams to dispel false information, your support today will help protect the way we’ll all work tomorrow.  

Since its inception in 2001, the Free Enterprise Alliance has financed, produced and/or promoted:

• Massive issue advocacy campaigns comprised of mail, radio and television ads that reached hundreds of thousands of voters in Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire and North Carolina;
• The ABC Merit Majority Travel Teams, which met with ABC members and their employees and provided Get-Out-the-Vote information in the key battleground states of Missouri, Tennessee and Washington in 2006 and Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina and New Hampshire in 2008;
• The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (myprivateballot.com), which is fighting to protect the right to a federally supervised private ballot election when workers are deciding whether or not to join a union;
• The creation and distribution of educational videos, including the ABC member educational toolkit on the Employee Free (“Forced”) Choice Act;
• Right to Work ballot measures in Colorado, Iowa and Oklahoma;
• An initiative to expose deceitful “job targeting” in Minnesota;
• Nonpartisan voter registration and Get-Out-the-Vote efforts;
• Bilingual presidential candidate comparison voter guides and Get-Out-the-Vote posters distributed to all ABC members.  

 
While the Free Enterprise Alliance has made an impact, it still has much work to do.  

The enemies of free enterprise will continue to attack-making it harder and harder for you to compete. Your personal OR corporate contribution to FEA is an investment in the future of your business.