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Labor Watch
From the Ordinary to the Opulent: A Look at Union Buildings in the District
Unions claim to represent the common worker, advocating for fair wages, safe working conditions, and just treatment. However, reality often tells a different story. The massive, expensive headquarters of these…
by Elise Johnson on August 12, 2024

Labor Watch
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…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Labor’s Private-Sector Left
In the 1960s, government worker unionism subordinating the wider labor movement was still decades away. The Left of organized labor (laying aside some straggling outright communists and fellow-travelers like International…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Causes of the Long Decline
By 1979, when Lane Kirkland succeeded George Meany as head of the AFL-CIO, fundamental changes to the economy had led to a decline in the unionized share of the private…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: A Trade Unionist in the White House
Precisely one former national labor union president has been elected to the presidency of the United States: Ronald Reagan. Before his political career, he was already a notable figure, perhaps…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Membership Decline
Lane Kirkland, leadership of the AFL-CIO from 1979 through 1995, was defined by the Long Decline in union membership and union density, the proportion of the workforce consisting of organized…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
The Price of Bent Unions Is Red Unions
Corruption within organized labor is pervasive, but what happens to a union after the thieves, Mafiosi, or corrupt political fixers have been driven out by the long arm of the…
by Michael Watson on February 29, 2024

Labor Watch
“Hot Labor Summer” Was a Bust
Last year, we noted that the well-publicized march back to relevance of union organizing was not supported by the facts on union membership when the federal government released them in…
by Michael Watson on January 25, 2024

Organization Trends
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…
by Michael Watson on January 19, 2024

Labor Watch
Unions’ Anti-Israel Posturing Exposes the Illusion of a Right-Labor Alliance
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…
by Michael Watson on January 2, 2024