California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a loophole that seemed suspiciously closely designed to exempt Panera Bread from a sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the SEIU. Newsom and the SEIU have…
Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan’s new book on “the struggle for the soul of labor” takes progressive philanthropy to task for not prioritizing the promotion of America’s labor movement and makes…
Corruption within organized labor is pervasive, but what happens to a union after the thieves, Mafiosi, or corrupt political fixers have been driven out by the long arm of the…
Last year, we noted that the well-publicized march back to relevance of union organizing was not supported by the facts on union membership when the federal government released them in…
In the December 2023 issue of Capital Research, the Democratic Socialists of America have become a power bloc that is pulling the Democratic Party to the left, Hamas has a…
Aided by a tight labor market, Big Labor is having something of a moment. Even the young guns of the self-appointed “New Right” are getting in on the action. But…
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind from the massive disruptions it inflicted on the American economy in 1945–46. The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the “Taft-Hartley Act”…
The ties that bind organized labor to the left-of-center infrastructure, the Democratic Party, and the modern expansionist administrative state date predate the Wagner Act of 1935. While early labor movements…
In the October/November 2023 issue of Capital Research, the Hewlett Foundation is ironically funding a campaign against free-market capitalism. The Biden administration spends $1.2 billion researching transgender issues. The Taft-Hartley…
The period of organized labor’s ascendancy and consolidation after the Great Depression began to slow on November 5, 1946. Big Labor faced increasing headwinds as the Depression era retreated and…