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…
environmental social governance (ESG)
ESG Shareholder Activism in Proxy Preview 2025
The annual Proxy Preview report was recently released, detailing a selection of ESG shareholder resolutions filed thus far in 2025. As was evident last year, there continues to be a…
The Teamsters’ Trojan Horse
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley presents himself as a conservative champion of working-class voters, attacking wokeness in corporations and the workplace. But that doesn’t fit the recent coziness between Hawley and…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #350: A Parallel, Conservative Economy
The Trump administration is dismantling DEI within the federal workforce and ESG is slowly morphing into one of the most irritating terms in corporate governance. But conservatives, sensing there may…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
InfluenceWatch Episode #331: Indiana Battles BlackRock
BlackRock, Inc, a multinational investment company and one of the world’s largest asset managers with a $10 trillion portfolio, has been deeply involved in pushing the politically aligned environmental, social,…
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…