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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’…
by Michael Watson on May 6, 2021

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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…
by Michael Watson on April 27, 2021

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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…
by Michael Watson on April 22, 2021

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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…
by Michael Watson on April 13, 2021

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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…
by Michael Watson on March 19, 2021

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“Labor Conservatives” Have a Compass, but Which Way Is North?
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…
by Michael Watson on March 16, 2021

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Indiana Carpenters’ Challenge to Unanimous Decertification Undermines “Free-Rider” Claims
The latest National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF) case update extremely curious. The foundation is a public interest law outfit that represents workers oppressed by unions that they…
by Michael Watson on March 9, 2021

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Teachers Unions Extort States Unwilling to Resist
Longtime readers will remember that last summer we warned that teachers unions were strategizing to continue school lockdowns indefinitely. Some were explicitly refusing to return to work until such COVID-19-related…
by Michael Watson on February 25, 2021

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Union Forced-Dues Coercion in Practice
Big Labor support put the Biden administration and the Democratic Congress in power, so Big Labor expects them to deliver legislation on the lines of the Protecting the Right to…
by Michael Watson on February 19, 2021

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Where Are Working Women’s Advocates? Follow the Government Worker Union Money
Women are leaving the workforce in droves. This is perhaps the most predictable consequence of the ongoing teachers union–manipulated lockdowns of public schools. Your humble correspondent predicted this consequence in…
by Michael Watson on February 10, 2021