AFL-CIO Goes All-In for the Woke Professional Managerial Class
The current labor movement forms the combat groups of the woke professional managerial class (PMC), who make up the leadership and operative class of the union movement. Last week, the…
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The Big Labor–Big Green Alliance in One Provision
If the “labor conservatives” were Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby-Dick, their White Whale would be a divorce between institutional organized labor and the environmentalist movement, which they reasonably…
Criticizing Teachers Union Allies? You Might Be a “Domestic Terrorist.”
After a year of public school closures, mask mandates far stricter than in comparable international settings, and the exposure of radical-left social indoctrination in public school as endorsed by teachers…
Democrats Pack $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Bill with Payoffs to Big Labor
The core of the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled Congress’ legislative agenda is a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill. While much attention has been paid both to the astronomical price tag, less…
The SEIU: Here We RICO Again
Earlier this year, the Freedom Foundation announced a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act lawsuit against SEIU Local 503, an SEIU affiliate in Oregon, for forging dues authorizations. Last…
Will the Supreme Court Hear Challenge to SEIU-Backed Gag Rule?
Freedom Foundation, a right-leaning labor-issues policy shop based in the Pacific Northwest has worked to inform government employees of their rights to not pay union dues. So the SEIU pushed…
Randi Weingarten: A Study in Hypocrisy
Over the past year and a half, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has been a controversy magnet. Demanding flexibility for teachers and restrictions for students,…
Muzzles for Ye, No Shots for We
At this point, the obstinacy of the teachers unions in refusing to enable the provision of the public education guaranteed to parents by most state constitutions should require no recounting.
Labor Day 2021
On Labor Day, we review some recent CRC publications that look at Big Labor and how its interest consistently clash with the interests of the workers that labor unions claim…
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…