Improving Union Annual Reporting
The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act is an important law that codifies the principle that unions must experience public and member scrutiny as a price for their extensive, government-secured…
Big Labor
A Taft-Hartley Roundup of Recent Labor News
Despite loud noises from Senate backbenchers about throwing away the Taft-Hartley consensus and adopting the labor policies of former President Barack Obama, other Republicans in Congress are looking for piecemeal…
Republicans and the Teamsters, a Bad Relationship
If Republican leaders follow the American Compass into the arms of the Teamsters union, they will be repeating an error of their predecessors from the Eisenhower era. They would do…
Disunited Steelworkers and the U.S. Steel Deal
Before Americans broke for the Memorial Day weekend, President Donald Trump announced that he would allow a proposed investment by Japan-based Nippon Steel into the struggling company U.S. Steel that…
SAG-AFTRA, a Nonpartisan Union in Support of the Left
While SAG-AFTRA has long described itself as nonpartisan, emphasizing its commitment to collaborating with members from diverse political affiliations, its financial contributions and the political engagement of its members suggest…
Republicans and Big Labor: GOP-Union Outreach Before Franklin Roosevelt
A review of the history shows that Republican political figures chasing the votes of working men and women have repeatedly sought to collaborate with union bosses who claim to speak…
Republicans and Big Labor: Wagner and Taft-Hartley
After the war, unions flexed their NLRA-supercharged muscles with the largest strike wave in American history, which worsened inflation caused by military demobilization. That economic disruption swept the Republicans into…
Republicans and Big Labor: The Two Minds of Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon had voted for Taft-Hartley in Congress, but opposed efforts to establish a national right-to-work law. After his decisive but narrow victory, President Nixon pursued a middle path on…
Republicans and Big Labor: Reagan-Bush and Beyond
Running away from Big Labor, most prominently by Ronald Reagan’s Transportation Department sacking illegally striking PATCO air traffic controllers in 1981, did not harm the GOP.
Big ESG’s Big Partner: Big Labor
“Big Labor is Everything Leftism and Everything Leftism is Big Labor.” ESG is no exception, and the Proxy Preview 2025 reveals the extent to which Big Labor is entwined in…