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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.
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.
What Killed the Teen Summer Job? Big Labor
Big Labor is the principal special interest responsible for the decline of teen paid summer work. Minimum wage hikes, which unions often push, function as essentially a sectoral bargaining kludge…
Republicans and the Teamsters, a Bad Relationship
If Republican leaders follow the American Compass into the arms of the Teamsters union, they will be repeating an error of their predecessors from the Eisenhower era. They would do…
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.
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…