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Marty Walsh’s Family Union
Despite the protestations of “labor conservatives,” Big Labor and the Democratic Party are intimately intertwined. The new Biden administration’s nominee for Secretary of Labor illustrates this reality perfectly. President Joseph…
by Michael Watson on February 3, 2021

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It’s Time to Get Mad
When schools across the nation closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted that large swathes of the United States, almost alone among nations in…
by Michael Watson on January 28, 2021

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School Choice: Now More than Ever
Americans are beginning to wake up to the Biden administration’s obsequiousness to its paymasters in organized labor, and they are watching with growing alarm as teachers unions vow never to…
by Michael Watson on January 27, 2021

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Union Shenanigans
In 2020, unions were doing what unions do—only more so—by leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Watson explains how coronavirus legislation was delayed with early Christmas presents for Big Labor, not…
by CRC Staff on December 28, 2020

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The “Redistributionist Right” Would Strengthen Unions to Workers’ Detriment
If making American workplace relations more like those in the social-democratic countries of continental Europe sounds like something out of the political program of Senators Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Bernie…
by Michael Watson on November 9, 2020

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The Special Interests Behind California’s Proposition 15
This November, Californians will go to the polls to vote on Proposition 15, a new tax on commercial real estate that promises to further degrade the state’s already poor business…
by Robert Stilson on September 24, 2020

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The People’s PATCO?
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the most important labor action by a government worker union in US history was in 1981, when the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an…
by Michael Watson on September 15, 2020

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“General Strike” Call Illustrates Labor Conservatives’ Inopportune Timing
For Labor Day, the right-wing central-planning think tank American Compass published a manifesto that called on conservatives to support organized labor. While the eggheads and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) were…
by Michael Watson on September 11, 2020

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Labor Conservatives’ Underpants Gnomes
I regret to inform you that the “labor conservatives,” whose double-bank-shot play to use organized labor for various conservative purposes are at it again. In honor of Labor Day, the…
by Michael Watson on September 10, 2020

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Union Power
Labor Day weekend is nearly upon us, and teachers unions are using their death grip on the public school system to keep schools closed, despite the best interests of children,…
by CRC Staff on September 4, 2020