Big Labor’s Annual Reports Show Its Ties to the Left
Fresh annual reports for 2023 conclusively demonstrate the institutional connections between Big Labor and the rest of the Left. But these annual reports just skim the surface of the deep…
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The Price of Bent Unions Is Red Unions
Corruption within organized labor is pervasive, but what happens to a union after the thieves, Mafiosi, or corrupt political fixers have been driven out by the long arm of the…
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s Height: The Conservative Response
The period of organized labor’s ascendancy and consolidation after the Great Depression began to slow on November 5, 1946. Big Labor faced increasing headwinds as the Depression era retreated and…
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s Height: The State of Big Labor, 1950
As the 20th century hit its midpoint, organized labor was both near its absolute height and riven by the issues that would start its long decline. At the forefront was…
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s Height: Labor’s Compromised Right
Moderate Republicans seeking to appeal to organized labor despite the faction’s nearly nine-decade-long clear loyalty to the Democrats are as old as labor’s partisan divide. Modern moderates have focused on…
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s Height: Responding to the Rackets
By 1959, the McClellan Committee investigations and public hearings had exposed enough misbehavior by labor union officials (most of which was in the Teamsters Union) that a bipartisan consensus had…
The Myth of the “Nonpolitical” Labor Union
The labor-conservative faction led by American Compass—an ostensibly conservative think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy—has an insurmountable problem in converting the conservative movement and the Republican Party from its…
Lessons in How to Run a Congressional Investigation from Bobby Kennedy
In the U.S. House of Representatives, the new majority Republicans are eager to pursue all manner of investigations into potentially corrupt activities by the Biden administration and its institutional liberal…
Corruption in the Labor Movement: Labor Rackets
Corruption by labor union officials, whether in service to themselves, political allies, or organized crime syndicates, has been a fixture of American labor history since the labor movement first began…
Corruption in the Labor Movement: A New Cast of Thieves
What is likely the largest federal union corruption investigation since the 1990s centered on a kickback scheme run through a joint union-management training center. Fiat Chrysler executives and agents would…