Why Is Josh Hawley Bringing Obamanomics Back from the Grave?
Most of the time, Sen. Hawley is a strong voice for conservative policy, but in issuing his “pro-worker framework,” he has dug up the rotting corpse of one of President…
Big Labor
The SEIU and the Teamsters Changed to Lose
In 2005, Andy Stern and James P. Hoffa, the leaders of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), led their massive unions and five…
DOGE and the Department of Labor
In recent years the U.S. Department of Labor has routed millions of dollars under various grantmaking initiatives to nonprofits that would most accurately be characterized as left-wing activist groups. In…
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The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America: Megaphones and Militancy
The Ford Foundation is filled with money earned a century ago by Henry Ford in gritty Dearborn, Michigan. But neither the family nor the automaker control it anymore. Decades ago,…
What a Difference a Year Makes
Between 2023 and now, it feels like a whole decade’s worth of things happened. The nonprofit-industrial complex was torn apart by the elevation of Palestinian nationalism to the central focus…
Follow Trump 45 Labor Policy, Not the Teamsters Union
Following the election, I noted that President-elect Donald Trump did very little to pander to union bosses on policy substance. Trump’s Vice President-elect, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), gave a…
About the Three Working Classes
In August 2024, University of Pennsylvania professor and former member of the George W. Bush administration John J. DiIulio Jr. published an op-ed in National Review on the political trends…
What to Make of Teamster Neutrality?
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it would make no endorsement in the presidential race for the first time since 1996. Has the previously busted myth of the nonpolitical labor…
From the Ordinary to the Opulent: A Look at Union Buildings in the District
Unions claim to represent the common worker, advocating for fair wages, safe working conditions, and just treatment. However, reality often tells a different story. The massive, expensive headquarters of these…
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…