The SEIU: Here We RICO Again
Earlier this year, the Freedom Foundation announced a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act lawsuit against SEIU Local 503, an SEIU affiliate in Oregon, for forging dues authorizations. Last…
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Will the Supreme Court Hear Challenge to SEIU-Backed Gag Rule?
Freedom Foundation, a right-leaning labor-issues policy shop based in the Pacific Northwest has worked to inform government employees of their rights to not pay union dues. So the SEIU pushed…
Randi Weingarten: A Study in Hypocrisy
Over the past year and a half, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has been a controversy magnet. Demanding flexibility for teachers and restrictions for students,…
Muzzles for Ye, No Shots for We
At this point, the obstinacy of the teachers unions in refusing to enable the provision of the public education guaranteed to parents by most state constitutions should require no recounting.
Labor Day 2021
On Labor Day, we review some recent CRC publications that look at Big Labor and how its interest consistently clash with the interests of the workers that labor unions claim…
NEA Head Demands More Lockdowns and Masks, Defends Anti-Vaccine Teachers
Even the most committed partisan outlets cannot defend a leftist defending a completely indefensible position. For Pringle and the National Education Association, that position is simple: no vaccine mandates for…
Social Justice Unionism: Centering Race in California
Perhaps the most consequential misunderstanding of conservatives who hope to reach out to working Americans is the belief that labor unions’ economic politics can be separated from their cultural politics.
Social Justice Unionism: Pushing Gun Control in Montana
In 2019, the Republican legislature in Montana proposed legislation to pre-empt local governments from placing stricter regulations on firearms carry than the state had enacted. Then-Governor Steve Bullock (D) vetoed…
Social Justice Unionism: Big Labor’s High Times
Since the early 2010s, numerous states have decriminalized or authorized the use and sale of marijuana products under their own state laws, although the drug remains illegal under federal law.
Social Justice Unionism: Pushing Planned Parenthood’s Propaganda
The ballot campaigns of 2020 demonstrate clearly that organized labor’s economic agenda cannot be divorced from its social agenda. In matters as diverse as racial preferences, approaches to bail and…