A Mandate for Labor Error: Statism from the Right
For almost 80 years, the conservative movement and the Republican Party that has served as its imperfect electoral vehicle have sought to advance three goals related to labor relations. But…
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
A Mandate for Labor Error: Big Labor Radicalizes
As conservatives advanced their moderate aims in the post–New Deal era, Big Labor started radicalizing. As workers’ freedom not to join unions thrived under right-to-work laws led to stalled growth…
A Mandate for Labor Error: Strange Bedfellows
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A Mandate for Labor Error: Coming to Policy at Last
Project 2025 did not fully abandon the policies of the Taft-Hartley consensus. The document rejects the Biden administration–Big Labor approach to expanding union power and membership. But the worst proposal…
A Mandate for Labor Error: Conclusion
The Taft-Hartley consensus—making union membership voluntary, subjecting unions to government oversight, and protecting consumers and the economy from labor strife—worked. It apparently worked so well that conservatives forgot why they…
Assessing Big Labor’s Potential Dues Windfall
Since union strength began declining in the late 1950s, organized labor has sought to reverse its decline by numerous stratagems. The latest campaign, led once again by the SEIU, targets…
Conservatives Need Protection from Both Woke Business and Woke Labor
With the rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activist investing and the increasing liberal tilt of the commanding heights of major corporations, many conservatives have begun rethinking their and the Republican Party’s…
Labor’s Launch Aborted
Last year was supposed to be the year that organized labor began its long march back to relevance, with massive organizing campaigns winning victories at the commanding heights of the…
Unions Are Allies of Wokeness, Not Conservative Employees
Conservative workers have no reason to trust organized labor as it exists. Labor unions’ political committees support Democratic candidates by ratios of nine to one over Republicans. Labor unions are…
The Three Rivers of Money in Politics
Private money in politics flows through three main rivers: money given directly to candidates ($5 billion); soft money, sometimes called "dark money" ($133 million); and charitable giving to public policy…