The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: Sectoral Bargaining
Leftists and their fellow travelers on the ostensible right like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank look to Europe for their ideal of labor relations: “sectoral bargaining.” For…
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The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Practical Case
The reforms made by the Taft-Hartley Act advanced three pillars that would come to define the Republican and conservative approaches to labor-management relations. Sectoral bargaining explicitly opposes two of the…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Political and Advocacy Case
Organized labor in the United States serves as a functional adjunct to the Democratic Party and the left-wing advocacy movement. Expanding the power of union commissars by adopting sectoral bargaining…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Ideological Case
The ideological case against sectoral bargaining is subtly different than the political-advocacy case. Organized labor has always been susceptible to Marxist or Marxist-influenced class-conflict analysis, which has been alien to…
The Cases Against Sectoral Bargaining: The Economic Case
On the question of the economic effects of European-style sectoral bargaining versus American-style enterprise bargaining, the world has been running a sort of general economic experiment since the end of…
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…
A Curious Carveout in Big Labor’s Golden State
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…
Explaining “Everything Leftism”
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…