VIDEO: Jimmy Hoffa’s Corrupt Union Culture Lives On
Netflix and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman brought the crimes of the nation’s most prominent union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, back to public consciousness in a way they haven’t been since Hoffa’s…
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The Legacy of “Mister Republican” Turns 75
Last week, one of the most impressive and consequential pieces of federal legislation of the 20th century passed its 75th anniversary: the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #212:
A New ERA: The Employee Rights Act
We’ve discussed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act on the show before—it’s a laundry list of bad ideas pushed by Big Labor and its allies in Congress that would…
Contesting the PRO Act’s Coercive Vision
his month, Congressional Republicans, business groups, center-right policy organizations, and advocates for worker independence presented their alternative to the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act’s coercive agenda: an expanded…
Video: Why Are Labor Unions Targeting Youth?
Today’s labor unions have a big problem: membership. As of 2020, less than seven percent of private-sector workers were part of a union. And membership rates have been plummeting for…
Congressional Staff Unionization: A Class Analysis
Congress is periodically prone gazing at its own navel, and the latest example is a budding debate over whether congressional staff should unionize. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader…
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…
Unionization Falls as Left Wing Pushes More Coercion
Each year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates the number of union members and the proportion of American workers in labor unions. Most years, the data tell a…
Philadelphia Union Boss Conviction Reveals Big Labor’s Political Machines
In November, a federal jury convicted John Dougherty, business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98 in Philadelphia, on a handful of conspiracy and fraud-related charges. Dougherty…
Does American Compass Point Left?
The Conservative Case for [Liberal Thing]” is a punchline. These “conservative cases” are drafted by think-tankers in the metaphorical hot-take mines who in many cases are paid to do so…