Competitive Enterprise Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • About
  • Policy
  • Products
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • About
  • Policy
  • Products
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Subscribe
  • Donate

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Sign Up

About CEI

  • Press Room
  • Team
  • Careers
  • Internships
  • Our History
  • Julian L. Simon Award Winners
  • Research Independence
  • Prometheus Society
  • Ways to Support CEI

Request a policy briefing from a CEI expert.

Learn More

All Policy Areas

  • Capitalism
    • Antitrust
    • Subsidies and Bailouts
    • Capitalism and Free Enterprise
  • Deregulation
    • Banking and Finance
    • Consumer Freedom
    • Labor and Employment
    • Regulatory Reform
    • Trade and International
  • Energy and Environment
    • Chemical Risk
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Lands and Wildlife
    • Water and Air Quality
  • Innovation
    • Healthcare
    • Tech and Telecom
    • Transportation
  • Law and Litigation
    • CEI Litigation
    • Free Speech
    • Government Transparency
    • Legal Studies
    • Property Rights
  • Government Affairs

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Sign Up

All Products

  • Research
    • Fast Track
    • Issue Analysis
    • OnPoint
    • Profiles in Capitalism
    • 10,000 Commandments
    • Agenda for Congress
    • Books
    • Individual Studies
  • Newsletters
    • CEI Planet
    • The Bulletin
    • The Surge
    • Great Capitalism
  • Outreach
    • Coalition Letters
    • Legal Briefs
    • Congressional Testimony
    • Regulatory Comments
  • Podcasts
    • Free the Economy
    • How The World Works

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Sign Up

All Events

  • Press Room
  • Team
  • Careers
  • Internships
  • Our History
  • Julian L. Simon Award Winners
  • Research Independence
  • Prometheus Society
  • Ways to Support CEI

Sign up below to receive the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

Join Us

Support CEI

  • Give Online
  • Wire Transfer
  • Estate Planning
  • Donate Crypto
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

The Open Market Blog

The Open Market Blog

Search Filters

Issue Areas

Masthead

Publisher

  • Kent Lassman

Managing Editor

  • Jeremy Lott

Assistant Managing Editor

  • Ryan Smith

Associate Editors

  • Travis Burk
  • Christine Hall
  • Scooter Schaefer

Contributors

  • Matthew Adams
  • Daren Bakst
  • Joshua Bandoch
  • John Berlau
  • Wayne Crews
  • Myron Ebell
  • Dan Greenberg
  • Sean Higgins
  • Sam Kazman
  • Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • Ben Lieberman
  • Mario Loyola
  • Jessica Melugin
  • Richard Morrison
  • Iain Murray
  • Alex Reinauer
  • Devin Watkins
  • Stone Washington
  • Ryan Young
  • Joel Zinberg

CEI Makes the Case for Freedom Every Day

Sign up below for the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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

Blog

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

The real issue in the port strike: Automation

Blog

The real issue in the port strike: Automation

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/01/2024

Most news reports on the east coast dockworker’s strike are focused on the issue of wages, which obscures the real reason for the strike:…

Labor and Employment

Teamsters non-endorsement: Outlier or sign of things to come?

Blog

Teamsters non-endorsement: Outlier or sign of things to come?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/23/2024

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’s internal poll on who to endorse in the 2024 presidential election was so lopsidedly in favor of Republican nominee Donald…

Labor and Employment

Teamsters’ non-endorsement exposes internal divisions

Blog

Teamsters’ non-endorsement exposes internal divisions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/18/2024

The announcement that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not endorse a presidential candidate this cycle is a sign of the internal struggles within…

Government Unions

Removing taxes on overtime would have only marginal impact

Blog

Removing taxes on overtime would have only marginal impact

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/13/2024

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s proposal to remove the taxes on overtime would likely have little effect on the workers and the economy. It…

Labor and Employment

Just 5 percent of private sector workers voted for their unions 

Blog

Just 5 percent of private sector workers voted for their unions 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/11/2024

Imagine if you lived in a country where a vote held decades previous determined which party held control of the government and people had little…

Labor and Employment

Proof of price gouging is harder to find than Bigfoot

Blog

Proof of price gouging is harder to find than Bigfoot

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/30/2024

The concept of “price gouging” is a lot like Bigfoot. Lots of people think it exists and have been chasing it for decades. Yet actual…

Antitrust

Labor issues 

Blog

Labor issues 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/26/2024

Labor Day was established in the late 1800s to celebrate workers and their achievements. Back then, manual labor was the dominant type of work for…

Labor and Employment

Scrapping tipping taxes is now a bipartisan issue. Good. 

Blog

Scrapping tipping taxes is now a bipartisan issue. Good. 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/14/2024

Never let it be said that Democrats think that Donald Trump is always wrong. Vice President Kamala Harris recently endorsed an…

Business and Government

The NLRB’s Orwellian ‘Fair Choice – Employee Final Voice Rule’ 

Blog

The NLRB’s Orwellian ‘Fair Choice – Employee Final Voice Rule’ 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/31/2024

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that oversees union elections, has a funny idea about what constitutes giving employees an honest say…

Private Unions

 Kamala Harris’s California quid pro quo for unions 

Blog

 Kamala Harris’s California quid pro quo for unions 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/24/2024

Kamala Harris is now the Democrats’ likely nominee to succeed Biden and she may pull the administration’s already pro-union labor policy even further leftwards. A…

Labor and Employment

NLRB backs down on Joint Employer 

Blog

NLRB backs down on Joint Employer 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/19/2024

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has withdrawn an appeal of a district…

Labor and Employment

Union leaders need Trump more than he needs them

Blog

Union leaders need Trump more than he needs them

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/16/2024

Credit where credit is due, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien faced a tricky tightrope walk when he spoke before the Republican National Convention…

Labor and Employment

The Supreme Court sends warning shot to NLRB 

Blog

The Supreme Court sends warning shot to NLRB 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/08/2024

Only one of the Supreme Court’s cases this term dealt directly with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), but several addressed the broader question of…

Labor and Employment

California’s Newsom grants exception to state law so restaurants can cope with other state law 

Blog

California’s Newsom grants exception to state law so restaurants can cope with other state law 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/02/2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation over the weekend that exempted restaurants in the Golden State from…

Business and Government

Biden’s pro-labor policies will linger past fall election 

Blog

Biden’s pro-labor policies will linger past fall election 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/27/2024

The Biden administration is trying to cement a pro-union labor policy into place for the next four years, even if likely Republican candidate Donald Trump…

Private Unions

Even SCOTUS liberal wing skeptical of NLRB moves  

Blog

Even SCOTUS liberal wing skeptical of NLRB moves  

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/18/2024

The most notable thing about the Supreme Court’s ruling last week against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Starbucks Corp.

Labor and Employment

Yes, make tipping tax-free 

Blog

Yes, make tipping tax-free 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/11/2024

Republican candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to make tips tax-free is a good idea, and not just because it will be a…

Business and Government

The inherent contradictions of unionized political campaigns 

Blog

The inherent contradictions of unionized political campaigns 

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/07/2024

President Joe Biden is the first candidate expected to win their party’s presidential nomination with a unionized staff. Whether this is…

Government Unions

Unions outdo Donald Trump in crying foul over election losses

Blog

Unions outdo Donald Trump in crying foul over election losses

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/03/2024

The US labor movement is rivaled only by Donald Trump when it comes to throwing out claims of election fraud. Like the Republican presidential candidate,…

Labor and Employment

UAW revival gets flat tire in Alabama

Blog

UAW revival gets flat tire in Alabama

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/17/2024

The United Auto Workers (UAW) on Friday  lost a high-profile bid to organize 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers in a plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The loss…

Automobiles and Roads

UAW loses 13,000 members

Blog

UAW loses 13,000 members

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/15/2024

The United Auto Workers (UAW) lost 13,000 members in the last year, according to filings the union made to the Labor Department. The UAW said…

Labor and Employment

R.I.P. Roger Corman, Filmmaker and Free Marketer

Blog

R.I.P. Roger Corman, Filmmaker and Free Marketer

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/14/2024

American cinema lost one of its great entrepreneurs last week when producer and director Roger Corman died at age 98. In a career that…

Human Achievement Hour

NLRB seeks to revoke First Amendment for management.

Blog

NLRB seeks to revoke First Amendment for management.

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/08/2024

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week sent a warning that literally anything management says about a union organizing bid…

Labor and Employment

Biden’s veto of joint employer rule CRA a blow to small businesses  

Blog

Biden’s veto of joint employer rule CRA a blow to small businesses  

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/03/2024

President Biden’s veto Friday of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) bill rolling back the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “joint employer”…

Business and Government

California’s $20 fast food worker minimum wage a regressive tax

Blog

California’s $20 fast food worker minimum wage a regressive tax

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/30/2024

California’s new $20 an hour minimum wage for fast food restaurants has turned into a regressive tax on the state’s low-income residents. People who wanted…

Deregulation

Seattle’s new minimum wage rule undermining delivery drivers

Blog

Seattle’s new minimum wage rule undermining delivery drivers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/19/2024

A new Seattle minimum wage law meant to boost the incomes of app-based delivery drivers has instead backfired, resulting in less work for drivers. Some…

Business and Government

Biden says his steel tariffs totally different from Trump’s, speculates uncle was eaten by cannibals

Blog

Biden says his steel tariffs totally different from Trump’s, speculates uncle was eaten by cannibals

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/17/2024

President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday that he would get tough on China’s steel dumping by tripling tariffs on imports. He argued this was totally different…

Trade and International

OSHA tries to walk union officials into workplaces

Blog

OSHA tries to walk union officials into workplaces

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/04/2024

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issued a new rule Friday that will result in union organizers accompanying agency representatives during worksite inspections.

Private Unions

California laggin’: As Golden State minimum wage rises, so does unemployment

Blog

California laggin’: As Golden State minimum wage rises, so does unemployment

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/29/2024

California has been a pioneer in raising the minimum wage for decades, consistently putting its state-wide minimum well above the federal rate. Over that same…

Labor and Employment

Pagination

  1. Go to first page
  2. Go to previous page
  3. Select page
  4. 1
  5. 2
  6. 3
  7. 4
  8. 5
  9. 6
  10. 7
  11. 8
  12. 9
  13. Go to next page
  14. Go to last page

show entries per page:

  • 6
  • 50
  • 100

Masthead

Publisher

  • Kent Lassman

Managing Editor

  • Jeremy Lott

Assistant Managing Editor

  • Ryan Smith

Associate Editors

  • Travis Burk
  • Christine Hall
  • Scooter Schaefer

Contributors

  • Matthew Adams
  • Daren Bakst
  • Joshua Bandoch
  • John Berlau
  • Wayne Crews
  • Myron Ebell
  • Dan Greenberg
  • Sean Higgins
  • Sam Kazman
  • Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • Ben Lieberman
  • Mario Loyola
  • Jessica Melugin
  • Richard Morrison
  • Iain Murray
  • Alex Reinauer
  • Devin Watkins
  • Stone Washington
  • Ryan Young
  • Joel Zinberg

CEI Makes the Case for Freedom Every Day

Sign up below for the latest research, news, and commentary from CEI experts.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

  • Home
  • About
  • Policy
  • News
  • Products
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Donate

Special Projects

  • Ten Thousand Commandments
  • Eye on FTC
  • Children Online Safety Tools
  • Net Neutrality 101
1310 L Street NW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-331-1010

Follow Us:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
Competitive Enterprise Institute

©2025 Competitive Enterprise Institute | Privacy Policy