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NEA Head Demands More Lockdowns and Masks, Defends Anti-Vaccine Teachers
Even the most committed partisan outlets cannot defend a leftist defending a completely indefensible position. For Pringle and the National Education Association, that position is simple: no vaccine mandates for…
by Michael Watson on August 20, 2021

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Social Justice Unionism: Centering Race in California
Perhaps the most consequential misunderstanding of conservatives who hope to reach out to working Americans is the belief that labor unions’ economic politics can be separated from their cultural politics.
by Michael Watson on July 15, 2021

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Social Justice Unionism: Pushing Gun Control in Montana
In 2019, the Republican legislature in Montana proposed legislation to pre-empt local governments from placing stricter regulations on firearms carry than the state had enacted. Then-Governor Steve Bullock (D) vetoed…
by Michael Watson on July 15, 2021

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Social Justice Unionism: Big Labor’s High Times
Since the early 2010s, numerous states have decriminalized or authorized the use and sale of marijuana products under their own state laws, although the drug remains illegal under federal law.
by Michael Watson on July 15, 2021

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Social Justice Unionism: Pushing Planned Parenthood’s Propaganda
The ballot campaigns of 2020 demonstrate clearly that organized labor’s economic agenda cannot be divorced from its social agenda. In matters as diverse as racial preferences, approaches to bail and…
by Michael Watson on July 15, 2021

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Why You Should Still Care About Big Labor’s Disproportionate Clout
Though its power has declined since the 1950s, when it commanded the loyalty—and commandeered the dues payments—of about one-third of the U.S. workforce, Big Labor remains a potent force in…
by Michael Watson on July 12, 2021

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Teachers Unions Boost Critical Race Theory
While the NEA delegates have declined to declare open war on their fellow Americans, they did promise to use American public education to indoctrinate students in radical-left “critical race theory.”…
by Michael Watson on July 6, 2021

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NEA Proposes Endless War on Children
The National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, is demonstrating that when it comes to hostage-taking, ideological safetyism, and destroying children’s lives, no one surpasses teachers unions. The NEA's…
on July 2, 2021

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Big Labor Sues to Preserve the Specter of Lockdown
We noted that the specter of the COVID-19 lockdowns hangs as a miasma most persistently over those areas of life most controlled by Big Labor. As it so often does,…
by Michael Watson on June 30, 2021

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Supreme Court Limits Government’s Power to Aid Unions
This week, the Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a challenge by agricultural producers in California against a regulation under the state’s agricultural unionization law that compelled producers…
by Michael Watson on June 24, 2021