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 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…
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…
California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a loophole that seemed suspiciously closely designed to exempt Panera Bread from a sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the SEIU. Newsom and the SEIU have…
It’s a simple question: How can “Queers for Palestine,” the slogan on protest signs of pro-Palestinian (or anti-anti-Hamas) protesters, be a thing? (Homosexuality is stigmatized and criminalized in the Palestinian…
Aided by a tight labor market, Big Labor is having something of a moment. Even the young guns of the self-appointed “New Right” are getting in on the action. But…
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind from the massive disruptions it inflicted on the American economy in 1945–46. The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the “Taft-Hartley Act”…
The ties that bind organized labor to the left-of-center infrastructure, the Democratic Party, and the modern expansionist administrative state date predate the Wagner Act of 1935. While early labor movements…
The Fresno Teachers Association recently threatened to go on strike for salary increases, smaller class sizes, and reduced workload for special education teachers, along with a collection of ridiculous demands.
Since the horrific terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, numerous left-wing institutions have disgraced themselves by taking actions that at least appeared to side with the terrorists against their…