Thanks to a Washington, D.C., firm, activists tied to the AFL-CIO, a major public employees union, have gathered nearly 300,000 signatures supporting a ballot measure that would delay Right to Work…
Labor unions and their front groups brought once-great American manufacturing to a painful state of dull production with over-regulation and foolish wage laws, and now they are trying to plague…
See Dr. Steven J. Allen’s op-ed on the UAW’s push to unionize in Mississippi featured in the Washington Examiner In the battle for workers rights, score one more defeat for Big…
Summary: Unlike private-sector unions—which create an adversarial relationship between the labor union and the employer—public sector unions operate under a different dynamic. Indeed, public sector unions are in a unique…
On May 31st the Illinois legislature passed a bill raising the state minimum wage from $8.25 per hour to $15 per hour over five years. The bill has since…
Summary: It began on the fringes of union activism. In just a few years, the campaign for a $15 an hour federal minimum wage—armed with the slogan “Fight for $15!”—has…
SUMMARY: “Progressives,” including those in the labor movement in the U.S., are rapidly aligning themselves with Islamic political radicalism. Within unions that are historically pro-Israel, support is growing for the…
Summary: As we reported in the October 2015 Labor Watch, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been, for more than three decades, a key figure in extremist politics and in hoaxes…
Summary: In an effort to help their political supporters in the unions, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton and the state’s legislature classified Minnesota’s home care providers as government employees for purposes of…