A Curious Carveout in Big Labor’s Golden State
California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a loophole that seemed suspiciously closely designed to exempt Panera Bread from a sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the SEIU. Newsom and the SEIU have…
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The Price of Bent Unions Is Red Unions
Corruption within organized labor is pervasive, but what happens to a union after the thieves, Mafiosi, or corrupt political fixers have been driven out by the long arm of the…
Teachers Union Chief Plays Dumb on Reasons for Homeschooling Surge
Randi Weingarten may pretend to not understand why homeschooling has dramatically increased in recent years. But the reasons are clear. During COVID-induced distance learning, parents saw what was in their…
“Hot Labor Summer” Was a Bust
Last year, we noted that the well-publicized march back to relevance of union organizing was not supported by the facts on union membership when the federal government released them in…
President of Teachers Union Tries to Rewrite History . . . and Fails
A group of education experts testified to the House Committee on Education this year, stating that the school closures during the COVID pandemic were the “biggest domestic policy failure of…
Unions’ Anti-Israel Posturing Exposes the Illusion of a Right-Labor Alliance
Aided by a tight labor market, Big Labor is having something of a moment. Even the young guns of the self-appointed “New Right” are getting in on the action. But…
BEST OF 2023: In Defense of Taft-Hartley
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind from the massive disruptions it inflicted on the American economy in 1945–46. The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the “Taft-Hartley Act”…
BEST OF 2023: Creation of the Labor-Progressive Alliance
The ties that bind organized labor to the left-of-center infrastructure, the Democratic Party, and the modern expansionist administrative state date predate the Wagner Act of 1935. While early labor movements…
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s Height: The Conservative Response
The period of organized labor’s ascendancy and consolidation after the Great Depression began to slow on November 5, 1946. Big Labor faced increasing headwinds as the Depression era retreated and…
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s Height: The State of Big Labor, 1950
As the 20th century hit its midpoint, organized labor was both near its absolute height and riven by the issues that would start its long decline. At the forefront was…