“Who Funds That?” Episode 21: The Next 30 Years of Big Labor
On this podcast, we largely cover who funds the groups and people who are influencing public policy — and today we’ll be diving into the abyss of labor unions with…
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Alaska Airlines, the Association of Flight Attendants, and union thuggery for the digital age
Two Alaska Airlines flight attendants expressed dissent from the company’s position supporting the “Equality Act,” a piece of radical social-liberal legislation that would, among other things, require bathrooms to be…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #343: Trump’s Labor Mistake
Donald Trump has made quick work of nominating potential cabinet members, and many of those picks – while controversial – are being met with nods – albeit sometimes lukewarm nods…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #260: Are Unions Coming to College Sports?
In late 2021, following a class action suit in which the Supreme Court decided some college athletes should be allowed to earn money off their image and likeness, a Biden…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #209: Protecting Big Labor’s Paycheck
In 2020, as the coronavirus hit and governments ordered mass lockdowns of length and scope unprecedented in American history, Congress passed the “Paycheck Protection Program” or PPP to help small…
Capital Research, January 2022
We are pleased to announce that the January 2022 issue of Capital Research is now available online. Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Robert Stilson looks at the Democracy Alliance and…
Social Justice Unionism
If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly demonstrated that Big Labor remains a potent force in American culture and politics, even though its power has declined since the 1950s,…
Supreme Court Limits Government’s Power to Aid Unions
This week, the Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a challenge by agricultural producers in California against a regulation under the state’s agricultural unionization law that compelled producers…
Still Muzzled? Blame Big Labor
After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement that individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not need to wear masks in most public places, almost all jurisdictions that had…
“Labor Conservatives” Have a Compass, but Which Way Is North?
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…