Unionizing the nonprofits
The non-autoworker staff of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art have voted to join the United Auto Workers. This isn’t the only nonprofit to unionize, and it’s becoming more…
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Making the AFL-CIO great again: labor policy in 2026
Big Labor had big worries about a second Trump administration. But big donors on the left and curious allies on the right are helping the union bosses survive and thrive.
Big Labor sails from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to the “Fired Four”
Big Labor has devolved from protecting hard men doing dangerous jobs to defending pampered reporters who publicly harass the HR department. This isn’t your great granddad’s union movement.
How Big Labor lost its love for Jewish Americans and Israel
When American organized labor was constituting itself at the turn of the 20th century and growing in strength through the first half of the century, American Jews, especially recent immigrants…
Two years after the UAW strike
Former President Biden walked a picket line with the UAW two years ago on September 26…
A Taft-Hartley Roundup of Recent Labor News
Despite loud noises from Senate backbenchers about throwing away the Taft-Hartley consensus and adopting the labor policies of former President Barack Obama, other Republicans in Congress are looking for piecemeal…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Old Left and the Reds
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor and the New Left
The collapse of American Communism was not the end of American leftist radicalism, and the labor union movement would negotiate a complex dance with the “New Left” from its beginning…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Rise of the SEIU
Among the many problems afflicting Big Labor as the Long Decline began was organizing; namely turning workers into dues-paying union members, especially in the growing service industries and the historically…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor’s New Coalition
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…