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‘With you or without you’ – The growing rift between unions and Democrats

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‘With you or without you’ – The growing rift between unions and Democrats

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/20/2025

A rift is growing between the Democratic Party and the labor movement. It was caused in large part by the party’s inability to move the…

Labor and Employment

The flaw in Justice Kagan’s defense of the NLRB

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The flaw in Justice Kagan’s defense of the NLRB

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/23/2025

Justice Elana Kagan authored a lengthy dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday granting the Trump administration’s request to keep the Gwynne Wilcox,…

Law and Litigation

Initiative 82 will hopefully get 86’d

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Initiative 82 will hopefully get 86’d

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/09/2025

The city of Washington, DC has belatedly realized that passing a law whose purpose is to make a product or service more expensive will cause…

Labor and Employment

CEI suggests DOT put the brakes on train two-person crew rule

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CEI suggests DOT put the brakes on train two-person crew rule

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/01/2025

The Transportation Department recently asked the public for comments on how to reduce the regulatory burden. One thought that the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)…

Rail and Mass Transit

Trump’s tariffs: Look for the union label

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Trump’s tariffs: Look for the union label

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/18/2025

One of the biggest boosters of President Trump’s tariffs has been the United Auto Workers (UAW). The venerable union wants to see domestic factories expanded…

Labor and Employment

Why government reform may hinge on ending federal unions

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Why government reform may hinge on ending federal unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/09/2025

President Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining for a wide swath of federal cabinet agencies and other government entities is a laudable attempt…

Government Unions

Trump’s push to remake the NLRB 

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Trump’s push to remake the NLRB 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/02/2025

Things are a bit topsy-turvy currently at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that oversees labor-management disputes in…

Labor and Employment

Five ideas for Secretary Chavez-DeRemer

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Five ideas for Secretary Chavez-DeRemer

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/02/2025

President Trump’s newly-confirmed labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has been viewed with suspicion by many on the free-market right. She can rectify that…

Labor and Employment

Hawley’s bill speeds up union elections by removing guardrails

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Hawley’s bill speeds up union elections by removing guardrails

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/26/2025

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) thinks workers are having too hard of a time forming unions. His solution to that is to fast-track the process…

Labor and Employment

Chavez-DeRemer exemplifies Trump’s complicated relationship with unions

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Chavez-DeRemer exemplifies Trump’s complicated relationship with unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/11/2025

The Senate confirmed former Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer in a 67-32 vote Monday as President Trump’s new labor secretary. CEI and others…

Labor and Employment

You want hiring freezes with that? The effects of California’s minimum wage increase

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You want hiring freezes with that? The effects of California’s minimum wage increase

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/05/2025

California officially raised its minimum wage to $20 an hour last April in an attempt to help the state’s working poor. What those folks…

Labor and Employment

White House requires federal agencies to disclose time spent working for unions instead of taxpayers

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White House requires federal agencies to disclose time spent working for unions instead of taxpayers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/03/2025

The Trump administration has restored reporting and transparency requirements for so-called “official time,” the practice where government workers are allowed to act exclusively on behalf…

Government Unions

Trump labor department pick signals pro-market stance on joint employer, independent contract rules

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Trump labor department pick signals pro-market stance on joint employer, independent contract rules

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/28/2025

Keith Sonderling, Trump’s pick to deputy secretary of labor, the department’s second-ranking position, told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee this…

Labor and Employment

Trump labor secretary pick backs right to work, disavows past support for union-tilted PRO Act

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Trump labor secretary pick backs right to work, disavows past support for union-tilted PRO Act

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/19/2025

President Trump’s pick to be labor secretary, former Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, disavowed her past support for the union-tilted …

Labor and Employment

Trump says labor law cannot prevent him from cleaning house at labor umpire agency

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Trump says labor law cannot prevent him from cleaning house at labor umpire agency

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/19/2025

President’s Trump’s letter firing National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairwoman Gwynne Wilcox and the NLRB’s general Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, makes the bold claim that…

Labor and Employment

No, Virginia, there was no Amazon worker strike

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No, Virginia, there was no Amazon worker strike

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/10/2025

The labor protests launched by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against Amazon over the Christmas holiday were nothing more than a hollow …

Private Unions

Hawley offers gift to union leaders, not workers

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Hawley offers gift to union leaders, not workers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/30/2025

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) reportedly has proposed a “pro-worker framework for the 119th Congress” that amounts to a watered down wishlist of items wanted by unions leaders.

Labor and Employment

Trump follows Biden precedent in sacking NLRB general counsel 

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Trump follows Biden precedent in sacking NLRB general counsel 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/28/2025

President Trump’s decision to fire National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairwoman Gwynne Wilcox and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is controversial and will likely be challenged…

Labor and Employment

Trump’s new Schedule F executive order is smarter, but could still backfire 

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Trump’s new Schedule F executive order is smarter, but could still backfire 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/22/2025

President Trump’s re-instatement of his “Schedule F” executive order, making it easier to fire career federal employees,…

Regulatory Reform

Trump picks gig economy fan for DOL’s number 2 spot  

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Trump picks gig economy fan for DOL’s number 2 spot  

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/16/2025

President-elect Donald Trump has raised more than a few eyebrows in the world of labor policy when he nominated the frankly…

Labor and Employment

Nice dock. Big shame if you modernized it, Trump warns ports 

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Nice dock. Big shame if you modernized it, Trump warns ports 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/16/2024

President Trump has signaled that if East Coast dockworkers go on strike, he will back them instead of the ports. This increases the odds that…

Labor and Employment

Schumer moves to lock in place Democrat-majority labor board 

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Schumer moves to lock in place Democrat-majority labor board 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/10/2024

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is attempting to ensure that the Democrats retain control of the National Labor Relations Board, the…

Labor and Employment

Congresswoman Chavez-DeRemer is not qualified to be Labor Secretary 

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Congresswoman Chavez-DeRemer is not qualified to be Labor Secretary 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/21/2024

President-elect Donald Trump is considering Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) for the position of…

Labor and Employment

Biden overtime rule overruled 

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Biden overtime rule overruled 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/19/2024

A Texas court last week threw out the Biden’s administration’s attempt to rewrite the rules for overtime. The court said that the Department of Labor…

Labor and Employment

NLRB moves to silence employers during union drives 

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NLRB moves to silence employers during union drives 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/18/2024

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the independent federal agency that oversees union activity, ruled Wednesday in a case involving Amazon…

Labor and Employment

Voters okay higher minimum wages, balk at more radical ideas

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Voters okay higher minimum wages, balk at more radical ideas

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/06/2024

The ironic thing about Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ rhetoric is that it overlaps to a degree with old-school Democratic populism. This can be…

Business and Government

The next president may face a ‘January Surprise’: Port strikes 

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The next president may face a ‘January Surprise’: Port strikes 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/31/2024

The next president might face a test right as they are being inaugurated: a renewal of the International Longshoremen Association’s (ILA) strike against east coast…

Labor and Employment

The origins and lessons of the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the 1980s

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The origins and lessons of the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the 1980s

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/31/2024

Moral panics are just one of those things that free societies seem to go through on a regular basis. The “satanic panic” was the big…

Deregulation

Longshoremen stood down when they realized wrecking the economy wasn’t popular 

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Longshoremen stood down when they realized wrecking the economy wasn’t popular 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/04/2024

Thursday’s announcement that the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) was ending its strike at east coast and Gulf of Mexico ports after…

Labor and Employment

White House has several options in dockworkers strike, none of them good 

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White House has several options in dockworkers strike, none of them good 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/03/2024

President Biden likes to call himself “Blue Collar Joe” and declare his support for union workers, but his administration has been…

Labor and Employment

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