United Auto Workers (UAW)

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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…
by Dr. Steven J. Allen on August 2, 2017

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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…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 1, 2017

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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…
by Michael Watson on July 25, 2017

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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…
by Matt Patterson on April 15, 2014

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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…
by James Sherk on June 1, 2012

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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…
by James Sherk on January 3, 2012