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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In Defense of Taft-Hartley: Why Taft-Hartley Came to Be
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind from the massive disruptions it inflicted on the American economy in 1945–46. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-OH) shepherded passage of the Labor Management…
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: The Taft-Hartley Consensus
Taft-Hartley accepted as fait accompli the Wagner Act’s framework of compulsory, monopoly-union bargaining. It also accepted as fait accompli numerous restrictions on employers’ conduct related to employee organization, including restrictions…
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: Advancing Voluntarism
Every conservative dragooned by circumstance into a unionized workplace is compelled to make a Hobson’s choice: Either concede any voice in the workplace by resigning from the union, or pay…
In Defense of Taft-Hartley: Protecting the Public
The past few years should be an object lesson in why the Taft-Hartley principles limiting unions’ power to disrupt commerce and society—remember the parade of horribles that President Truman detailed…
The Myth of the “Nonpolitical” Labor Union
The labor-conservative faction led by American Compass—an ostensibly conservative think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy—has an insurmountable problem in converting the conservative movement and the Republican Party from its…
What to Make of American Compass’s “New Conservative Voter”
American Compass, the statist think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy, has released a new poll that claims to have discovered a “new conservative voter” who rejected Reaganite free-market economic…
VIDEO: The Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the single largest contributor to federal political candidates in the United States. In total, the SEIU and its associated political action committees have spent…
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.
Big Labor Meets Arabella: A Coalitional Case Study
Social justice unionism is a theory of organized labor politics under which organized labor marches together with the social-liberal Left on noneconomic issues. This is part of a broad left-wing…