SEIU Local 1199
The Union and the Republican Prize Patrol
The fall of the Prize Patrol from New York State government and the more recent fall of Rivera’s successor George Gresham from the top of 1199SEIU’s greasy pole provides a…
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…
Nonprofits in the Biden Administration: Federal Courts
President Joe Biden wrapped up 2021 having nominated 75 judges to the federal bench, 40 of whom were confirmed by the Senate. That is the most judicial confirmations in 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…
Social Justice Unionism
If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly demonstrated that Big Labor remains a potent force in American culture and politics, even though its power has declined since the 1950s,…
The Big Labor–Big Green Alliance in One Provision
If the “labor conservatives” were Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby-Dick, their White Whale would be a divorce between institutional organized labor and the environmentalist movement, which they reasonably…
Possible Connecticut Nursing Home Strike a PRO Act Warning
Connecticut nursing home residents and their families—already reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic—may lose their professional care staff for at least a time. The Service Employees International Union…
Sharpton Annual Conference Again Heavily Corporate-Funded
Carl Horowitz of the National Legal and Policy Center has an interesting article about all the myopic major corporations that sponsored the recent convention of National Action Network. The group…