Union Shenanigans
In 2020, unions were doing what unions do—only more so—by leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Watson explains how coronavirus legislation was delayed with early Christmas presents for Big Labor, not…
Labor Watch
The “Redistributionist Right” Would Strengthen Unions to Workers’ Detriment
If making American workplace relations more like those in the social-democratic countries of continental Europe sounds like something out of the political program of Senators Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Bernie…
The Special Interests Behind California’s Proposition 15
This November, Californians will go to the polls to vote on Proposition 15, a new tax on commercial real estate that promises to further degrade the state’s already poor business…
The People’s PATCO?
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the most important labor action by a government worker union in US history was in 1981, when the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an…
“General Strike” Call Illustrates Labor Conservatives’ Inopportune Timing
For Labor Day, the right-wing central-planning think tank American Compass published a manifesto that called on conservatives to support organized labor. While the eggheads and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) were…
Labor Conservatives’ Underpants Gnomes
I regret to inform you that the “labor conservatives,” whose double-bank-shot play to use organized labor for various conservative purposes are at it again. In honor of Labor Day, the…
Union Power
Labor Day weekend is nearly upon us, and teachers unions are using their death grip on the public school system to keep schools closed, despite the best interests of children,…
Working Washington: An SEIU Subsidiary
Working Washington lists itself as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization created to represent low-wage workers in the state of Washington. From its inception, Working Washington has supported SEIU’s ideology. Its website…
Where Is, Repeat Where Is, America’s Political Leadership? The World Wonders.
Teachers unions have shut down schools for goals entirely unrelated to protecting teachers from illness, explicitly demanding defunding the police, wealth taxes, bans on new charter schools, and public benefits…
Job Murder Most Foul, Brought to California with a Union Label
This week, in response to a court decision, Uber and Lyft announced that they would at least temporarily shut down their operations in California. At issue is the controversial union-sponsored…