On Labor Relations Radio, CRC's Michael Watson explains Big Labor's dramatic reversal on immigration. In 2000 the AFL-CIO executive council dramatically reversed past policy on immigration, calling “for an immediate…
In 2000, the executive council of the AFL-CIO reversed its policy on immigration, calling for amnesty for undocumented immigrants and ending sanctions on their employers. This represented a turn for…
As President John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, organized labor looked ahead toward a future of ever-increasing power and influence. States had begun to advance laws requiring themselves…
In the 1960s, government worker unionism subordinating the wider labor movement was still decades away. The Left of organized labor (laying aside some straggling outright communists and fellow-travelers like International…
By 1979, when Lane Kirkland succeeded George Meany as head of the AFL-CIO, fundamental changes to the economy had led to a decline in the unionized share of the private…
Precisely one former national labor union president has been elected to the presidency of the United States: Ronald Reagan. Before his political career, he was already a notable figure, perhaps…
Lane Kirkland, leadership of the AFL-CIO from 1979 through 1995, was defined by the Long Decline in union membership and union density, the proportion of the workforce consisting of organized…
Last year, we noted that the well-publicized march back to relevance of union organizing was not supported by the facts on union membership when the federal government released them in…
The ties that bind organized labor to the left-of-center infrastructure, the Democratic Party, and the modern expansionist administrative state date predate the Wagner Act of 1935. While early labor movements…
The period of organized labor’s ascendancy and consolidation after the Great Depression began to slow on November 5, 1946. Big Labor faced increasing headwinds as the Depression era retreated and…