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…
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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…
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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…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor and the New Left
The collapse of American Communism was not the end of American leftist radicalism, and the labor union movement would negotiate a complex dance with the “New Left” from its beginning…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Rise of the SEIU
Among the many problems afflicting Big Labor as the Long Decline began was organizing; namely turning workers into dues-paying union members, especially in the growing service industries and the historically…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor’s New Coalition
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…
Who Is Big Labor, Anyway?
There are three persistent, widespread myths about union members. First, many believe that organized labor speaks for wage- and salary-earners as a class based on overwhelming membership. Second, many believe…
The SEIU and the Teamsters Changed to Lose
In 2005, Andy Stern and James P. Hoffa, the leaders of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), led their massive unions and five…
History Lessons from the Port Strike
Harold Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) that struck ports from the Gulf Coast to Maine, said that he would teach Americans “what a strike is,” employing extortionate…