Bad Labor Policy Starts with Bad Labor History
While the labor-Democratic alliance is generations old, the depth of that alliance has grown over time. As the old Southern Democrats passed from the scene, the Democratic scrutiny of organized…
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Is DEI Fine If Big Labor Rather Than Big Business Demands It?
A leading complaint of the “labor conservatives” is that American business, especially big businesses, is increasingly aligned with the social-liberal left. They are not entirely wrong. Under aggressive pressure from…
A Misguided Republican Gift to Big Labor
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have ideas to change the relationship between American workers and their employers: employee involvement organizations that resemble European-style works councils…
AFL-CIO Goes All-In for the Woke Professional Managerial Class
The current labor movement forms the combat groups of the woke professional managerial class (PMC), who make up the leadership and operative class of the union movement. Last week, the…
I Do Not Want the NewsGuild Bargaining for Me, Ever
Under “sectoral bargaining”—proposed by some “labor conservatives”—labor unions and industry associations would negotiate a contract for an entire industry covering union members and non-members alike. For writers like me, that…