The bars in Big Labor’s “Hotel California”
If one generation of workers votes a labor union into their workplace, it is almost impossible for new generations to vote the union out. But there are reform ideas that…
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An Epitaph for a distinctly American labor movement, at 30
In 1996, a former trade unionist came not to praise the American labor movement but to bury it, as its radicalization to the left against what was then an increasingly…
Labor Department toughens union transparency rules
Upgrades help ensure that union members, prospective union recruits, and the public can track the use of member dues and compulsory fees required of workers in non-right-to-work states.
Coercive unionism (briefly) freezes Long Island RR
One Long Island Rail Road worker with a $50/hr base salary pulled down $292,435 in 2024. His union went on strike last week, and he believes NY Gov. Hochul has…
A Republican plan to resurrect Obama’s assault on labor union democracy
The Obama administration promoted the “Employee Free Choice Act,” a deceptively named attack on secret ballots in union elections, among other bad labor policy ideas. EFCA deserved to die, but…
Goodbye, Secretary Chavez-DeRemer: hopefully your replacement isn’t worse
A Republican administration should not have a labor secretary who allied with Big Labor bosses. Now that this mistake is over, it shouldn’t happen again.
What is a labor union, and why does that question matter?
Organized labor is, for long-standing and irreversible institutional reasons, left-progressive, even if the American working man (or woman) is not.
A labor strike you probably didn’t notice hiked the unemployment rate
Thanks to restrictions on strikes imposed by legislators who supported the Taft-Hartley Consensus, you probably didn’t notice a labor union action that might have been big enough to alter national…
Trump’s labor agencies get to work for independent workers
Calming fears that appointing a pro-union Labor Secretary meant the Trump administration would side with Big Labor rather than American workers and businesses, the Department of Labor and National Labor…
Texas teachers union protecting teachers who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Everyone has a right to free speech. But should anyone have the right to publicly celebrate political violence and then still teach kids at a public school?…