Washington, DC–The National Consumers League (NCL) is applauding Microsoft and AstraZeneca’s\u00a0recent decision to end its association with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg, NCL Executive Director:<\/p>\n
“ALEC\u00a0has been at the forefront of efforts to roll back some of our nation’s most important consumer and worker protections on issues such as telecommunications deregulation, the Affordable Care Act, Wall Street reform, “right to work,” state usury caps, and more. We encourage other companies that express a commitment to consumer and worker protection to follow Microsoft and\u00a0AstraZeneca’s\u00a0lead and consider disassociating themselves from\u00a0ALEC.”<\/p>\n
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About the National Consumers League
<\/strong>The\u00a0National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit\u00a0www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 27, 2014 Contact: Ben Klein, National Consumers League,\u00a0benk@nclnet.org, (202) 835-3323 Washington, DC–The National Consumers League (NCL) is applauding Microsoft and AstraZeneca’s\u00a0recent decision to end its association with the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10253,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/10253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}