Beware Teachers Unions Bearing School Reopening Talk
The tide of the school reopening wars must have turned because Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and leading advocate for school closures, has changed her…
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Possible Connecticut Nursing Home Strike a PRO Act Warning
Connecticut nursing home residents and their families—already reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic—may lose their professional care staff for at least a time. The Service Employees International Union…
Core Issues in Labor Policy: Every Job a Factory Job
With the Biden administration and Democratic congressional majorities entering office with the backing of organized labor as a constituency they intend to reward and strengthen, supporters of employee freedom, American…
Core Issues in Labor Policy: Independent Contracting
Independent contracting through internet applications (the “gig economy”) hurts Big Labor in two ways: First, the application platforms compete with old, Three Bigs–model unionized businesses. This is most visibly the…
Core Issues in Labor Policy: Mandating the Closed Shop
For Big Labor, the closed shop debate is a simple one: They get more money from a closed shop than an open shop. Unions have battled state-level right-to-work laws with…
Core Issues in Labor Policy: Social Justice Unionism
Big Labor’s institutional and alumni-network linkages with the rest of the Left propagate an ideology sometimes called “social justice unionism.” In social justice unionism, rather than focusing advocacy on members’…
Is Pastors for Texas Children a Front for Texas Teachers Unions?
Pastors for Texas Children, a left-of-center advocacy group in Texas, claims to be a charitable organization that is “not beholden to any special interest group.” If its electioneering activities over…
Lessons from Big Labor’s Latest Defeat
Despite all the hype, when Amazon workers had the opportunity to make their voices heard, they told Big Labor to take a hike. The scale of the thumping handed to…
More Case Studies in Union Misconduct
We now have even more evidence of widespread, knowing malfeasance by Big Labor officials abusing their powers under existing law to compel workers to pay dues. The Freedom Foundation is…
Teachers Unions Don’t Always Get Their Way
Across the country, in states both red and blue, state legislatures are acting against union obstinacy to get children back into classrooms. Some are enacting even bolder reforms that will…