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NLRB Counsel Wants Card Check as Left-Wing Labor Pick Fails
Under the Biden administration, Big Labor has pressed its interests in several core issues of labor policy. We have previously noted labor union strategies to adapt to contemporary workplace relations…
by Michael Watson on May 26, 2022

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Amalgamated Bank: How Did We Get Here?
Few entities embody the symbiotic relationship between American organized labor and the Left better than Amalgamated Bank. With a client list that includes some of the biggest political players in…
by Robert Stilson, Hayden Ludwig on May 25, 2022

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Amalgamated Bank: Philanthropic Politics
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation has ballooned its revenues by 8,890 percent since its creation, from revenues of $253,000 in 2017 to nearly $23 million in 2019. The 501(c)(3) is focused on…
by Robert Stilson, Hayden Ludwig on May 25, 2022

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Amalgamated Bank: “Hate Is Not Charitable”
In mid-2019, the Amalgamated Charitable launched an aggressive campaign to curb donations to conservative, libertarian, and right-leaning nonprofits by labeling them “hate groups.” The Hate Is Not Charitable campaign was…
by Robert Stilson, Hayden Ludwig on May 25, 2022

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Amalgamated Bank: Shareholder Activism
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG)activism can also extend beyond an organization’s own practices and investment decisions. Shareholders in publicly traded companies can attempt to leverage their position to pressure…
by Robert Stilson, Hayden Ludwig on May 25, 2022

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Organized Labor Is a Dubious Ally for Conservatives
American business, long the key funder and rock-ribbed ally of the Republican Party and the conservative movement that uses the GOP as its imperfect electoral vehicle, now seems captive to…
by Michael Watson on May 24, 2022

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Social Justice Unionism Means Pro-Abortion Big Labor
Last week, Politico reported on a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and return the question of abortion regulation to the states, ending…
by Michael Watson on May 10, 2022

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Contesting the PRO Act’s Coercive Vision
his month, Congressional Republicans, business groups, center-right policy organizations, and advocates for worker independence presented their alternative to the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act’s coercive agenda: an expanded…
by Michael Watson on March 30, 2022

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Greening the Unions: Big Labor, Meet Big Green
Uniting America’s labor unions and environmentalists has been the dream of the Left for decades: a coalition that can overcome the threat to manufacturing job security posed by anti-carbon radicals.
by Hayden Ludwig on March 29, 2022

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Greening the Unions: The Apollo Alliance
The current BlueGreen Alliance operates as a pair of 501(c)(4) and (c)(3)—the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation—nonprofits, a common practice among political groups. This modern group was formed from a 2011 merger…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 29, 2022