Video: Why Are Labor Unions Targeting Youth?
Today’s labor unions have a big problem: membership. As of 2020, less than seven percent of private-sector workers were part of a union. And membership rates have been plummeting for…
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UAW Sets its Sights on Tesla
Business isn’t good for the United Auto Workers (UAW). The automobile factory workers’ union failed to unionize Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2014, and the effort to unionize Nissan factory…
Workers Score Big in Canton, Mississippi
See Dr. Steven J. Allen’s op-ed on the UAW’s push to unionize in Mississippi featured in the Washington Examiner In the battle for workers rights, score one more defeat for Big…
Corruption Dogs UAW Leadership
Read Dr. Steven J. Allen’s op-ed on the UAW – the biggest threat to auto workers – in Labor Watch. In a story that will no doubt rock the…
Featured Op-Ed: Auto Union is Biggest Threat to Auto Workers
Dr. Steven J. Allen’s op-ed was featured in the Washington Examiner – August 2, 2017 The United Auto Workers (UAW) helped turned Detroit—once America’s fifth-largest city and its richest per capita—into…
United Auto Workers Isn’t Serving Union Members
For more on UAW, see Dr. Steven J. Allen’s featured op-ed on the push to unionize auto plants in the South When it comes to pay-to-play corruption, the United Auto…
Government Unions after Wisconsin
Summary: Unlike private-sector unions—which create an adversarial relationship between the labor union and the employer—public sector unions operate under a different dynamic. Indeed, public sector unions are in a unique…
Democracy in peril in Chattanooga
Former Capital Research Center senior editor Matt Patterson has a powerful op-ed about Volkswagen's ongoing betrayal of its own workers in Chattanooga. Chattanooga's Volkswagen workers were given the opportunity…
Should Union Members Get to Re-Elect Their Unions? One Way to Make Unions Accountable
(From the June 2012 publication, Labor Watch, PDF here) It’s the law: when employees are unionized they may not negotiate wages, benefits, or other working…
The Union Difference: A Primer On What Unions Do To The Economy
(From the January 2012 publication of Green Watch, PDF here) Everyone knows that unions try to raise…