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Liberal Commentator Discovers One Weird Trick to Progressive Utopia
Many Democrats are disappointed that President Joe Biden’s narrow election and the narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate have not yield liberal policy victories like those of Presidents…
by Michael Watson on July 29, 2022

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Big Labor’s Golden State: A Tale of Two Cities
Summary: With over 10 percent of the nation’s population and an economy larger than that of France, California has loomed large in the nation’s politics and economy since the mid-20th…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

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Big Labor’s Golden State: Rise of Industrial California
Labor relations nationwide were transformed by the New Deal, especially the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) in 1935. The law abolished the strong form of the…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

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Big Labor’s Golden State: California’s Union Labor Machine
While private-sector unions remain powerful in California, the true center of labor organizing and government growth is its government-sector unions. Surprisingly perhaps given the vast growth in their power since…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

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Big Labor’s Golden State: Ballot Power
No discussion of California politics and policy can omit its extensive use of the ballot measure, and no discussion of California labor unions can omit their positions as among the…
by Michael Watson on July 28, 2022

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The Legacy of “Mister Republican” Turns 75
Last week, one of the most impressive and consequential pieces of federal legislation of the 20th century passed its 75th anniversary: the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as…
by Michael Watson on July 1, 2022

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Immigration Agents’ Union Seeks Divorce from AFL-CIO over Irreconcilable Political Differences
Rare is the labor union that breaks formally from “social justice unionism.” Reportedly, the National ICE Council, a labor union of immigration enforcement agents, seeks to disaffiliate from its parent,…
by Michael Watson on June 28, 2022

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Big Labor and the Democracy Alliance: Beginnings
For years the Democracy Alliance has embodied big money on the American Left. The alliance is as notable for the tremendous depth of its partners’ pockets and for the relative…
by Robert Stilson on June 3, 2022

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Big Labor and the Democracy Alliance: Funding Union Priorities
The Democracy Alliance functions largely to channel contributions pledged by its well-heeled partners to left-of-center organizations that the alliance has recommended. Individual partners are reportedly expected to commit at least…
by Robert Stilson on June 3, 2022

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Big Labor and the Democracy Alliance: Union Personnel
Still further evidence of the close relationship between Big Labor and the Democracy Alliance can be found in the number of current or former union personnel serving on the alliance’s…
by Robert Stilson on June 3, 2022