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.
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PRO Act Just Gives Unions More Power
The PRO Act is back from the dead and is little more than a labor union–backed mandate to force Americans to pay unions their own hard-earned money for the privilege…
Big Labor’s Annual Reports Show Its Ties to the Left
Fresh annual reports for 2023 conclusively demonstrate the institutional connections between Big Labor and the rest of the Left. But these annual reports just skim the surface of the deep…
On Unions and Open Borders
On Labor Relations Radio, CRC's Michael Watson explains Big Labor's dramatic reversal on immigration. In 2000 the AFL-CIO executive council dramatically reversed past policy on immigration, calling “for an immediate…
The Turn at the Millennium: Why Big Labor Switched Sides on Immigration
In 2000, the executive council of the AFL-CIO reversed its policy on immigration, calling for amnesty for undocumented immigrants and ending sanctions on their employers. This represented a turn for…
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: A New Power Rises
As President John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, organized labor looked ahead toward a future of ever-increasing power and influence. States had begun to advance laws requiring themselves…
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Labor’s Private-Sector Left
In the 1960s, government worker unionism subordinating the wider labor movement was still decades away. The Left of organized labor (laying aside some straggling outright communists and fellow-travelers like International…
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Causes of the Long Decline
By 1979, when Lane Kirkland succeeded George Meany as head of the AFL-CIO, fundamental changes to the economy had led to a decline in the unionized share of the private…
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: A Trade Unionist in the White House
Precisely one former national labor union president has been elected to the presidency of the United States: Ronald Reagan. Before his political career, he was already a notable figure, perhaps…
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Membership Decline
Lane Kirkland, leadership of the AFL-CIO from 1979 through 1995, was defined by the Long Decline in union membership and union density, the proportion of the workforce consisting of organized…