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…
Big 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…
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…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Ideological Case
The ideological case against sectoral bargaining is subtly different than the political-advocacy case. Organized labor has always been susceptible to Marxist or Marxist-influenced class-conflict analysis, which has been alien to…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Economic Case
On the question of the economic effects of European-style sectoral bargaining versus American-style enterprise bargaining, the world has been running a sort of general economic experiment since the end of…
The Unspoken Cause of “California Disease”
Theories of demographic change driving political change are overstated. California is often pointed to as an example, but California was a progressive state, not a red state. Using these theories…
Capital Research, February/March 2024
In the February/March 2024 issue of Capital Research magazine, Italian energy giant Enel cashes in on federal climate pork, the Progressive International gathers together the radical fringes of global leftism,…
Parity in Labor Transparency
Placing a union activist into employment as a mole to lay the groundwork for union organizing is an old and commonly used tactic known as “salting.” This means that union-side representatives can…