Category: Big Labor

Government of the Unions, by the Unions, for the Unions

Commentary President Joe Biden keeps boasting that all the new jobs his programs will supposedly create will be “good-paying union jobs.” But, Joe, what about the 93 percent of private sector workers who are not members of unions? Does he care about them? The Labor Department reports that in America today, 6.3 percent of all…


Amazon’s Rejection of Unions in Alabama Is a Big Loss for Big Labor

Commentary Big labor suffered a significant loss in its attempt to unionize employees at Amazon’s warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama. Of the workers eligible to vote, an embarrassingly small 16 percent voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. It was the most recent in a series of high-profile losses for labor including…


Don’t Force Workers to Join a Union

Commentary In 1978, when I was 17 years old, I worked as an usher at concerts and sporting events earning $2.25 an hour, the minimum wage. I had to surrender about 15 cents of this meager hourly wage to a union I was forced to join. I could never understand what a union was doing…