As the 20th century hit its midpoint, organized labor was both near its absolute height and riven by the issues that would start its long decline. At the forefront was…
Moderate Republicans seeking to appeal to organized labor despite the faction’s nearly nine-decade-long clear loyalty to the Democrats are as old as labor’s partisan divide. Modern moderates have focused on…
By 1959, the McClellan Committee investigations and public hearings had exposed enough misbehavior by labor union officials (most of which was in the Teamsters Union) that a bipartisan consensus had…
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The labor-conservative faction led by American Compass—an ostensibly conservative think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy—has an insurmountable problem in converting the conservative movement and the Republican Party from its…
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
Social justice unionism is a theory of organized labor politics under which organized labor marches together with the social-liberal Left on noneconomic issues. This is part of a broad left-wing…
Corporate America’s recent leftward lurch on many divisive sociopolitical issues has not occurred in a vacuum. While it doubtlessly has many causes, chief among these is the pressure that businesses…
The recent numerical increase in ESG shareholder resolutions has been well-documented. A comprehensive review of the 2022 proxy season by Georgeson counted 941 shareholder resolutions submitted to Russell 3000 companies,…
The nature of ESG shareholder resolutions has shifted over the years to rapidly ramp up the pressure on American business. To quote the publisher’s introduction to the 2021 Proxy Preview,…