The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
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…
The 1990s saw a shift in the leadership of organized labor. Out went Lane Kirkland, the social democratic Cold Warrior head of the AFL-CIO since 1979, and his backers in…
While the Long Decline amid the Reagan Revolution persisted, Big Labor and its increasingly militant left wing did have a silver lining that might show a path back to power…
Pressuring Kirkland into retirement was not enough for Gerald McEntee and the other leaders of labor’s left wing. They instead turned to John Sweeney of the SEIU, the architect of…
When Sweeney took over the AFL-CIO, he created a vacancy in the leadership of the SEIU. Richard Cordtz, Sweeney’s number two, initially took over ad interim, but Sweeney’s former campaign…
By mid-2005, Stern, his New Unity Partnership allies, and some new allies (had had enough with the Sweeney regime. Shortly before the 50th anniversary of the union of the American…
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley presents himself as a conservative champion of working-class voters, attacking wokeness in corporations and the workplace. But that doesn’t fit the recent coziness between Hawley and…
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…