The Ultimate Payoff
(Labor Watch, January 2010 PDF here) The December issue of Labor Watch looked at the growing influence of the 2.1-million member Service Employees…
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Organization Man
SEIU president Andrew Stern claims that organizing new members is more important than winning elections. But he is amassing political power in Washington, DC, at the expense…
Union Pensions in Crisis
(Labor Watch, November 2009 PDF here) Unions pensions are in trouble, and financial watchdogs such as Moody’s Investor Services are starting to sound…
High-Stakes Board Games: What Obama’s NLRB Might Do for Big Labor
(Labor Watch, October 2009 PDF here) The Employee Free Choice Act isn’t the only controversial labor initiative being pushed by the White House…
Time for a RAISE
(Labor Watch, September 2009 PDF here) James Sherk, the Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy at the Heritage Foundation, has proposed an innovative public…
The Anti-Chao
(Labor Watch, August 2009 PDF here) When Elaine Chao took over the Labor Department in 2001, her team was told not to badmouth…
Class Dismissed: How Teachers Unions Killed D.C. Vouchers
(Labor Watch, July 2009 PDF here) At the urging of teachers unions, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress has put the District of Columbia’s pilot…
SOS Ballot: An Interview with Ernest Istook
(Labor Watch, June 2009 PDF here) Ernest Istook, Chairman of Save Our Secret Ballot (SOS Ballot), was interviewed by former Labor Department official…
Special Report
(Labor Watch, May 2009 PDF here) Capital Research Center recently hosted the 2009 Summit on Labor Issues. It was the second such gathering…
What Price, Solidarity
(Labor Watch, April 2009 PDF here) President Barack Obama says that his administration is committed to reviving the nation’s economic prospects and securing…