InfluenceWatch Friday
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.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
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…
The Dance of Sweeney and Stern: “Big” Labor in 1990
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…
The Dance of Sweeney and Stern: Justice for Janitors
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…
The Dance of Sweeney and Stern: Sweeney Ascends
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…
The Dance of Sweeney and Stern: Sweeney’s Understudy Becomes a Rival
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…
The Dance of Sweeney and Stern: Stern Pushes the Button
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…
The Teamsters’ Trojan Horse
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…
InfluenceWatch Friday
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.
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Old Left and the Reds
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…