Conservatives, Embrace Big Labor at Your Peril
As the Democratic candidates court union endorsements, Big Labor is gearing up to spend big in 2020. This election cycle, labor union PACs have already made nearly $34 million in…
Labor Watch
SEIU’s Fight for $15 and the Anatomy of a Union Campaign
Since 2012, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its affiliates may have spent over $180 million on the so-called Fight for $15 campaign to raise the minimum wage and…
Official Comment on Proposed Union Transparency Regulation
The Office of Labor Management Standards to adopt the proposed Intermediate Bodies Rule to enable union members to provide scrutiny of their dues spending to the maximum level allowable by…
Public-Sector Unions in Pennsylvania
Not everyone in Pennsylvania agrees with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s education policies, and not everyone shares his hostility toward school choice initiatives. But everyone in the commonwealth who has worked…
The Janus Effect
The Supreme Court’s decision outlawed contract provisions requiring government employees to pay union dues and fees or be fired as unconstitutional violations of First Amendment freedoms. That means that Pennsylvania’s…
Workers Seeking Retroactive Refunds
Some proponents of the right-to-work movement now argue in court that laws requiring government workers to either join a union or pay “fair-share” fees as nonmembers were illegal from the…
Where Does the Money Go?
In the past quarter century, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the largest public-sector union in the state and an affiliate of the NEA, has given more than $13 million to…
House to Vote on
Labor’s Wish List
This week—most likely today—the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on one of the most radical pieces of legislation in recent memory. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act or…
Democrats Propose Giving Labor the Left’s Favorite Tactic
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act, H.R. 2474) is a laundry list of terrible policies and favors to the Big Labor from its Democratic supporters in the…
In Pennsylvania, Democrats Fight a GOP Bill to Expand School Choice
Pennsylvania lawmakers are poised to put Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, on defense for his opposition to new school-choice legislation. Meanwhile, Wolf and his union benefactors, who mouth support for…