The Great Green Pension Hold-Up: Jeopardizing Retirement
The state of Vermont is home to Middlebury College, which has a long association with 350.org founder Bill McKibben. It was at Middlebury that McKibben took some of his early…
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The Great Green Pension Hold-Up: Labor and Eco-Radicals
On the West Coast, a similar story is unfolding, where union members are becoming more vocal in expressing their concerns about Big Green’s fossil fuel divestment push. The California Public…
Don’t Look to Unions to Protect Social Conservatives
Many social conservatives are worried about possible retaliation by their employers against socially conservative views, and some are turning to an unlikely defense: national labor unions. Rod Dreher of The…
Backers of Nationwide Government Worker Union Privileges Should Watch What They Wish For
This week, the House Education and Labor Committee (since 2019 a source of numerous very bad ideas for American labor and employment policy) is considering a pair of…
UAW Fails at Volkswagen, Again
In one sense, it is the same old story: The United Auto Workers, seeking a foothold in the “transplant” car manufacturing industry that has established itself in the mostly…
Big Labor Swats Away Its “Kick Me” Sign
The “Protecting the Right to Organize Act” that Democrats introduced last month would naturally fulfill most items on Big Labor’s wish-list: Repealing all right-to-work laws, reauthorizing economically destructive secondary…
From Meany to No Middle Class: The Marxist Decline at the AFL-CIO
The AFL-CIO, America’s largest federation of labor unions, illustrated the extent of its hard-left turn earlier this week when its official account Tweeted a video by the openly…
Progressive Labor Plans to Drag U.S. Economy Back to 1946
Democrats like to believe they are building a progressive future. Their approach to labor relations in the “Protecting the Right to Organize Act” shows instead a desire to return…
Stripper Tab Not the Only Example of Shady Labor Spending
The AFL-CIO’s third-most powerful executive was given the green light to return to work following a brief paid suspension, according to a Monday report from SplinterNews. Opinions vary…
Big Labor’s Iron Law of Corruption
With May Day approaching and socialism on the march in the United States, one would expect good cheer in the senior leadership of the United Auto Workers, once led…