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AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File Today’s lack of institutional memory in our society is dangerous for employees and their employers. In this episode of Union Free Radio, podcast host and RedState.com contributor Peter List addresses society’s general lack of knowledge about today’s unions and how it is dangerous for both employees and their employers. To most people today, if they have any knowledge about unions, it’s from Hollywood—from movies, like Netflix’s The Irishman or Casin...

Photos courtesy of Covington; Holland & Knight; BGR Group and Akin Group This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Biden has called for more than $4 trillion in new spending for his infrastructure plan.  Democrats will likely pass a bill under reconciliation if no bipartisan deal is reached.  Trade groups and lawmakers, meanwhile, are tapping experts to decipher the Sen...

The Save Local Business Act would counter the joint employer provision of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, which is a top policy focus of the Biden administration, Democrats in Congress and union leaders. The PRO Act would codify the joint employer standard adopted by the National Labor Relations Board. The standard allows for two or more employers to be considered a joint employer of a worker if there is shared control of the worker’s essential terms and conditions of em...

AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu In the deepening of the already cozy relationship between President Joe Biden and Big Labor, Fox News reports on waivers given to certain Biden administration appointees who had prior Union ties: The Biden administration has come under scrutiny from Republicans on Capitol Hill following its decision to circumvent federal ethics rules and staff former union officials in senior posts. Beginning as early as March, the White House waived certain rules for former labor u...

The Pro Act, which passed the House of Representatives in March, has two big components. The first is that it makes it easier for workers and independent contractors to organize unions. That’s certainly a concern for some employers. But the other, and bigger headache for small businesses, is that it potentially changes the way we define and classify employees. Under the Pro Act, which is fashioned closely after California’s 2019 Assembly Bill 5 legislation: “ … an individual...

© Getty A decade ago, progressives were lamenting the “Walmart-ization” of America. They were concerned by the growing trend of big-box retailers that paid low wages while selling cheap goods from China and other countries. This Walmart model pitted smaller domestic manufacturers and Main Street businesses against large multinationals for a share of the U.S. consumer market. As a result, domestic producers struggled to stay in business in the face of heavily subsidized imports. Unfortunate...

Aaron Favila / AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in S...

Today Overcast. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High near 80F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.. Tonight Mostly clear skies this evening will become overcast overnight. Low 68F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. Updated: May 2, 2021 @ 1:03 pm

None of this has dampened Biden’s ardor for organized labor, or Republican opposition to it. Last Monday, Biden issued an executive order establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, a move that aims to help unions expand their ranks. On Tuesday, Biden named Celeste Drake, to head his new “Made in America” program, which is designed to steer more federal money to US manufacturers. Drake is longtime trade expert at AFL-CIO, the US’s largest un...

Unions have certainly been in the news this past year. They loomed large in discussions about the prudency of reopening schools for the nation’s children – with many states and localities ultimately caving to the unions’ desire to keep them closed. They played an outsized role in the closure of businesses who could not afford to pay the wages unions demanded amidst the pandemic.  It appears Congress will once again make them the focus of national attention with its consideration of the P...