I am writing to you today to strongly encourage you to stand up to out-of-state labor unions and against their attacks on a great Arizona company.
As you are aware, in November of last year the Scottsdale City Council voted 5-2 to approve the Axon Global Headquarters Campus rezoning after a lengthy, five-year-long public process. This process included extensive citizen involvement from start to finish.
What you may not be aware of is that following the approval by the City Council, a California-based union, Unite Here Local 11, met with leaders from Axon and gave them an ultimatum: Unionize or we will come after you. Axon did the right thing and refused to be threatened by the Union. Unfortunately, true to their word, Unite Here Local 11 and its political arm, Worker Power, funded the collection of roughly 26,300 of 27,000 petition signatures needed to refer the Council rezoning decision to the voters in 2026.
As my representative, I hope you will agree that this is a shameful abuse of the referendum process. Local businesses, not just Axon, should be able to confidently rely on the actions of a city council - those elected by the citizens to represent them in these matters - and trust that out-of-state interests won’t be permitted to abuse our laws to score political points.
Without your intervention, Axon, a publicly traded company based in Scottsdale since 1993, will be forced to move their Global HQ to another state that wants 5,500 highly compensated employees. (Axon expects to pay $400 million in payroll to Arizona employees this year.) If Axon leaves, it will take all of its employees including Axon's R&D and manufacturing facilities (and of course, the jobs).
Your vote will decide whether our out-of-state unions and their intimidation tactics are more important than local jobs.
Please vote accordingly.