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Adult Entertainers of the World, Unite!
The right-wing internet has been embroiled in so-called “porn wars,” with populists and social conservatives denouncing classical liberals for insufficient zeal in opposing pornography and demanding the feds ban smut.
by Michael Watson on March 12, 2020

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A Fatally Flawed Strategy
Summary: A group of conservative and other right-leaning writers has proposed an audacious strategy to counter the influence of left-progressive social policy enacted through corporate boardrooms and business decision-making. They…
by Michael Watson on March 11, 2020

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Social Liberalism’s Friends in Labor
Summary: A group of conservative and other right-leaning writers has proposed an audacious strategy to counter the influence of left-progressive social policy enacted through corporate boardrooms and business decision-making. They…
by Michael Watson on March 11, 2020

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Union-Liberal Networks
Summary: A group of conservative and other right-leaning writers has proposed an audacious strategy to counter the influence of left-progressive social policy enacted through corporate boardrooms and business decision-making. They…
by Michael Watson on March 11, 2020

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The Labor-Progressivism Alliance
Summary: A group of conservative and other right-leaning writers has proposed an audacious strategy to counter the influence of left-progressive social policy enacted through corporate boardrooms and business decision-making. They…
by Michael Watson on March 11, 2020

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Conservatives, Embrace Big Labor at Your Peril
As the Democratic candidates court union endorsements, Big Labor is gearing up to spend big in 2020. This election cycle, labor union PACs have already made nearly $34 million in…
by Michael Watson on March 4, 2020

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SEIU’s Fight for $15 and the Anatomy of a Union Campaign
Since 2012, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its affiliates may have spent over $180 million on the so-called Fight for $15 campaign to raise the minimum wage and…
by Michael Watson on February 25, 2020

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Official Comment on Proposed Union Transparency Regulation
The Office of Labor Management Standards to adopt the proposed Intermediate Bodies Rule to enable union members to provide scrutiny of their dues spending to the maximum level allowable by…
by Michael Watson on February 19, 2020

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Public-Sector Unions in Pennsylvania
Not everyone in Pennsylvania agrees with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s education policies, and not everyone shares his hostility toward school choice initiatives. But everyone in the commonwealth who has worked…
by Kevin Mooney on February 10, 2020

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The Janus Effect
The Supreme Court’s decision outlawed contract provisions requiring government employees to pay union dues and fees or be fired as unconstitutional violations of First Amendment freedoms. That means that Pennsylvania’s…
by Kevin Mooney on February 10, 2020