France learns (again) what sectoral bargaining means
If imported to the United States, French labor policy would put the American economy in peril.
Labor Watch
A Taft-Hartley roundup of recent labor news for September 2025
Big Labor bosses have enjoyed an elective dictatorship over the political speech of their members. But the workers have been pushing back.
Depoliticizing labor unions and charitable nonprofits
Depoliticizing Big Labor and Big Philanthropy has a long and complicated history. But there is potential for broad and bipartisan reforms.
How teachers unions and bureaucracy often fail to protect students
Sexual misconduct by public school educators is becoming disturbingly more common and teacher unions often shield offenders from consequences.
Does Big Labor truly represent the American worker?
Those hoping to hear workers’ voices need to find an alternative to union bosses, who have shown they barely speak for their members, much less all laborers.
Back to School: A guide for parents in today’s public schools
Does your public school exist to teach the skills and values you want your kids to learn, or the political values of particular teachers and Big Labor bosses?…
When you think it couldn’t get worse, the NEA says: “Hold my handbook!”
They made sure to mention “gender identification,” but just happened to forget to mention the word "Jewish" in a section about the Holocaust?…
Fifty years after Hoffa, the Teamsters are still bad news
On July 30, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa—better known as Jimmy—went for lunch at a suburban Detroit diner. The former boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, notorious for his corruption…
Ten key Big Labor facts
As of 2025, fewer than 10 percent of all civilian workers and fewer than 6 percent of private-sector workers are members of labor unions. With those low levels of…
What Killed the Teen Summer Job? Big Labor
Big Labor is the principal special interest responsible for the decline of teen paid summer work. Minimum wage hikes, which unions often push, function as essentially a sectoral bargaining kludge…