Sean Higgins is a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in labor and employment issues. As journalist, he covered the intersection of politics and economics for two decades, having been senior writer for the Washington Examiner, Washington correspondent for Investor’s Business Daily and a contributor to publications like Reason and National Review Online.”
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News
April 2022 Job Gains Demonstrate Government Intervention Not Necessary
Today the federal government reported that the U.S. economy gained 428,000 jobs last month (similar to the number added in March). Those gains demonstrate that…
New Job Gains for March 2022 Shows Businesses Open with Jobs to Offer: CEI Analysis
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the U.S. economy added over 400,000 jobs in the month of March – good news…
U.S. Economy Adds 678,000 Jobs in February, but Inflation, Russia, Government Mandates Remain a Problem
The U.S. economy added 678,000 jobs in February, according to newly released government figures. CEI economic and labor policy experts praised the good news…
Blog
Court Tells NLRB Sometimes a Joke Is In Fact a Joke
- By: Sean Higgins
In a significant win for common sense, a federal appeals court has found that sometimes a joke is just a joke, even when it…
Let’s Not Allow Davis-Bacon to Further Clog Job Arteries
- By: Sean Higgins
The Biden administration is proposing to make government contracting even more expensive by revamping the Davis-Bacon Act. This law requires that related workers on…
House Staffers Can Now Unionize
- By: Sean Higgins
The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved, for the first time ever, allowing congressional staff to form unions. This will be an interesting experiment. How…
Op-Eds/Articles
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Takes On the National Labor Relations Board
- By: Sean Higgins
Amazon is pushing back against the recent union election at its Staten Island facility in a novel way: by taking on the National Labor Relations…
The Hill
You’re the Boss: Unionized Staff Would Force Democrats to Take on Management’s Role
- By: Sean Higgins
A group of congressional Democratic staffers are attempting to form a union. It might not be a bad idea. A major problem with Congress is…
The Hill
PRO Act limits worker rights
- By: Sean Higgins
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act bears the interesting distinction of being supposedly “pro-worker” legislation that mostly rolls back individual workers’ rights. The legislation’s…
Studies
The Protect the Right to Organize Act Empowers Unions at Workers’ Expense
- By: Sean Higgins
View the Full Document as PDF The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is touted by its supporters as advancing the rights…
Citations
The Washington Times
Tech Companies Offer Big Money to Summer Interns for In-Person Work
- By: Sean Higgins
The Washington Times cites research Fellow Sean Higgins on the future of in-person versus remote internships: “This may lead to internships morphing into something…
AUDIO: Sean Higgins Joins the Bob Harden Show
- By: Sean Higgins
Research Fellow Sean Higgins joins the Bob Harden Show to discuss unions.
The Washington Times
American Consumers See Drop in Restaurant, Retail Quality from Labor Shortage, Study Finds
- By: Sean Higgins
The Washington Times cites Research Fellow Sean Higgins on costs of pandemic to restaurant business: Sean Higgins, a research fellow specializing in labor and…