Matt Patterson was formally a Senior Fellow at CEI’s Center For Economic Freedom, specializing in labor policy.
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CEI Lauds, Will Keyvote Members on NLRB Reform Measure
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2013 – Today the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation that would require the National Labor Relations Board…
Blog
Meet the New Boss(es): NLRB Nominees Clear Senate
- By: Matt Patterson
Well, it's official: We finally have a fully staffed National Labor Relations Board. On July 30 the Senate, as part of a deal worked out…
Empire of Rust: How the UAW Killed Detroit
- By: Matt Patterson
On Detroit’s east side, the abandoned Packard automaking facility looms tomb-like over 40 acres of once-prime real estate, its hollow buildings ringed with mounds of…
IRS: Double Standard Benchmark
- By: Matt Patterson
Americans expect that federal agents will enforce the law with integrity, and they expect the ever-prying eyes of an independent media to help ensure that…
Op-Eds/Articles
United Auto Workers fairy tales
- By: Matt Patterson
Once upon a time, in Chattanooga a young girl made her way to work, picking flowers to add to her basket of posies which she…
UAW ate Detroit: Chattanooga could be its next meal
- By: Matt Patterson
Co-written by Research Associate Julia Tavlas. Will Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant expand and hire more workers? That’s what Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger and City Mayor…
The UAW, Having Stripped Detroit Bare, Looks To The South
- By: Matt Patterson
Co-written with Julia Tavlas. The United Auto Workers union, having looted and stripped Detroit bare, have set their sights south, to the right-to-work states and…
Citations
Labor analyst: Volkswagen workers claim ‘misled’ by UAW
- By: Matt Patterson
Matt Patterson, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the issue is important because, if it’s true, it would “significantly compromise” the union’s chances…
CEI’s Patterson: Right-to-Work Laws Represent ‘Common Sense’
- By: Matt Patterson
Matt Patterson, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a strong advocate of states with right-to-work laws. These laws…
Wisconsin teachers union decertified in latest blow to labor under Walker law
- By: Matt Patterson
But Matt Patterson, labor analyst with the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, claimed the vote was a sign that workers were turning their backs on…
