Who Is Big Labor, Anyway?
There are three persistent, widespread myths about union members. First, many believe that organized labor speaks for wage- and salary-earners as a class based on overwhelming membership. Second, many believe…
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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…
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…
The New Left’s Total Victory in 2024
The New Left was still pretty “new” at the annual convention of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in June 1969. A direct ideological/historical line connects that long ago…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: It Wasn’t Just the Presidency
The 2024 election results are easily shown by the New York Times election-swing map. Unlike 2020, in which the swing-from-2016 map shows many counties that shifted against the change in…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: The Current American Plurality
Since before the first election of President Barack Obama, Big Philanthropy and liberal interest groups have awaited the rise of a “New American Majority” to be based on a “rising…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: How the Left Lost
So how, then, did the Left lose? The answer can be found in the liberal-progressive-Democratic coalition’s process ideology, Everything Leftism. The Biden administration operationalized Everything Leftism throughout its government, with…
The Winged Nike of Pennsylvania Avenue: Cautions and Conclusions
The Victory that now lies with President-elect Trump’s Republicans remains winged and ready to flee. They may find that, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s George Washington from the musical…
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…
History Lessons from the Port Strike
Harold Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) that struck ports from the Gulf Coast to Maine, said that he would teach Americans “what a strike is,” employing extortionate…