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Employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted by almost 3-to-1 to join the United Automobile Workers.

He’s the most pro-labor president since Harry Truman. Is that enough?

Maybe, just maybe, union victories in 2023 will prove to be a milestone on the way back to a less unequal nation

Is this a turning point for unions — and shared prosperity?

The public values economists for being able to predict the future, which they can’t do. Nobody can. The economics profession values economists for being able to translate observable reality into elegant mathematical equations, which the rest of us don’t care two hoots about. Politicians value economists as arbiters of public policy questions that may or may not lend themselves to economic analysis. (To review the latter, see my October 2022 essay, “May God Save Us From Econo...

Industrial jobs aren’t automatically high-paying.

Celebrating its 90th anniversary with a first sold-out performance at Australian Chamber Orchestra's The Neilson in October 2022,...

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