Teachers Unions Don’t Always Get Their Way
Across the country, in states both red and blue, state legislatures are acting against union obstinacy to get children back into classrooms. Some are enacting even bolder reforms that will…
Labor Watch
“Labor Conservatives” Have a Compass, but Which Way Is North?
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…
Indiana Carpenters’ Challenge to Unanimous Decertification Undermines “Free-Rider” Claims
The latest National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF) case update extremely curious. The foundation is a public interest law outfit that represents workers oppressed by unions that they…
Teachers Unions Extort States Unwilling to Resist
Longtime readers will remember that last summer we warned that teachers unions were strategizing to continue school lockdowns indefinitely. Some were explicitly refusing to return to work until such COVID-19-related…
Union Forced-Dues Coercion in Practice
Big Labor support put the Biden administration and the Democratic Congress in power, so Big Labor expects them to deliver legislation on the lines of the Protecting the Right to…
Where Are Working Women’s Advocates? Follow the Government Worker Union Money
Women are leaving the workforce in droves. This is perhaps the most predictable consequence of the ongoing teachers union–manipulated lockdowns of public schools. Your humble correspondent predicted this consequence in…
Marty Walsh’s Family Union
Despite the protestations of “labor conservatives,” Big Labor and the Democratic Party are intimately intertwined. The new Biden administration’s nominee for Secretary of Labor illustrates this reality perfectly. President Joseph…
It’s Time to Get Mad
When schools across the nation closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted that large swathes of the United States, almost alone among nations in…
School Choice: Now More than Ever
Americans are beginning to wake up to the Biden administration’s obsequiousness to its paymasters in organized labor, and they are watching with growing alarm as teachers unions vow never to…
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…