Port Strike Halts: Now What?
The port strike has ended with a tentative wage agreement and disputes over automation and fees punted to next year. The wage agreement was the easy part. On January 15,…
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What You Need to Know About the Port Strike
Starting early this morning, port workers on the East Coast represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) labor union walked out on strike, halting operations at 36 ports from Texas…
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…
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…
Trump-Supporting Steamfitters Show the Union-Member Divide
Whether they like it or not, Trump-supporting union members' real American dollars are supporting the reelection of President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies in Congress. Big Labor does not…
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 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…