American Compass vs AFL-CIO battle isn’t what it appears to be
The Teamsters union stands to benefit from the nominally right-leaning think tank’s fight with the Big Labor coalition. This is not a coincidence.
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Making the AFL-CIO great again: labor policy in 2026
Big Labor had big worries about a second Trump administration. But big donors on the left and curious allies on the right are helping the union bosses survive and thrive.
Big Labor’s “conservative heart” isn’t beating
Some on the right gullibly believe Big Labor should be an ally in the battle against wokeism.
Big Labor, its friends on the right, a late pope, and a Spider-Man villain walk into a bar
An 1891 papal pronouncement is loved today by labor leaders and some right-leaning allies and politicians. But they wouldn’t be so fond of it if they had read the whole…
The Hewlett Foundation’s mission to divide and rule the right
A giant left-wing donor has a plan to turn American exceptionalism into European malaise, and one piece of the mission is to co-opt the free society right.
Big Labor sees pensions as a “weapon”
Once used as a plaything for gangsters, Big Labor pension funds are now a weapon for left-wing political advocacy. What happened to just funding blue collar retirees?…
What Killed the Teen Summer Job? Big Labor
Big Labor is the principal special interest responsible for the decline of teen paid summer work. Minimum wage hikes, which unions often push, function as essentially a sectoral bargaining kludge…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: Sectoral Bargaining
Leftists and their fellow travelers on the ostensible right like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank look to Europe for their ideal of labor relations: “sectoral bargaining.” For…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Practical Case
The reforms made by the Taft-Hartley Act advanced three pillars that would come to define the Republican and conservative approaches to labor-management relations. Sectoral bargaining explicitly opposes two of the…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Political and Advocacy Case
Organized labor in the United States serves as a functional adjunct to the Democratic Party and the left-wing advocacy movement. Expanding the power of union commissars by adopting sectoral bargaining…