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Labor Watch
A Taft-Hartley Roundup of Recent Labor News
Despite loud noises from Senate backbenchers about throwing away the Taft-Hartley consensus and adopting the labor policies of former President Barack Obama, other Republicans in Congress are looking for piecemeal…
by Michael Watson on June 23, 2025

Labor Watch
Republicans and Big Labor: GOP-Union Outreach Before Franklin Roosevelt
A review of the history shows that Republican political figures chasing the votes of working men and women have repeatedly sought to collaborate with union bosses who claim to speak…
by Michael Watson on April 23, 2025

Labor Watch
Republicans and Big Labor: Wagner and Taft-Hartley
After the war, unions flexed their NLRA-supercharged muscles with the largest strike wave in American history, which worsened inflation caused by military demobilization. That economic disruption swept the Republicans into…
by Michael Watson on April 23, 2025

Labor Watch
Republicans and Big Labor: The Two Minds of Tricky Dick
Richard Nixon had voted for Taft-Hartley in Congress, but opposed efforts to establish a national right-to-work law. After his decisive but narrow victory, President Nixon pursued a middle path on…
by Michael Watson on April 23, 2025

Labor Watch
Republicans and Big Labor: Reagan-Bush and Beyond
Running away from Big Labor, most prominently by Ronald Reagan’s Transportation Department sacking illegally striking PATCO air traffic controllers in 1981, did not harm the GOP.
by Michael Watson on April 23, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #296: Defending the Right to Work
As some follow the siren song of statism promoted by activist groups funded by liberal foundations and push for stronger and more coercive labor unions, the National Right to Work…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on December 8, 2023