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.
Labor Watch
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?…
Great union inflection point or dead cat bounce? Parsing the 2025 BLS union members survey
Union membership ticked back up to 10.0 percent in 2025 in the federal government’s shutdown-affected survey data. Don’t expect this to herald a resurgence in trade unionism.
You paid $181 million for union bosses to negotiate against you in 2024, but the Trump administration is doing something about it
Federal taxpayers pay for unions to negotiate against the public interest. This should not be happening and a legal option leftover from the Cold War provides a solution.
Big Labor is watching your wedding: When your Big Day gets a secondary boycott
Big Labor decided to target a bride because she promoted a venue they didn’t like.
American Compass vs AFL-CIO battle isn’t what it appears to be
The Teamsters union stands to benefit from the nominally right-leaning think tank’s fight with the Big Labor coalition. This is not a coincidence.
Labor’s radical dream of the “general strike”
Big Labor in Europe, particularly in France, can launch strikes against the whole of society, rather than just a specific employer. Left-wing labor activists want to bring this institutionalized revolution…
Big Labor’s bid to kill its Golden State
California should be America’s Golden State. But the local SEIU has a ballot proposal to seize the gold and drive away the people who bring it in.