Labor Unions

Politics The Fall of Ted Heath, Reconsidered The Tory’s 1974 ouster would have befallen anyone in the same position. Credit: David Fowler Have I spent my whole life wrongly despising Ted Heath? I begin to fear so. Heath was the unlovable, awkward man who, 50 years ago, asked the voters of the United Kingdom the question “Who governs Britain” and...

The line between “labor union” and “secret society” wasn’t always clear during the 19th century — and the Molly Maguires were sometimes considered a bit of both. Back home in Ireland, where rent rates were too high and food was too scarce, the Molly Maguires were rural, country boys who likely saw themselves as the Irish version of Robin Hood...

The line between “labor union” and “secret society” wasn’t always clear during the 19th century — and the Molly Maguires were sometimes considered a bit of both. Back home in Ireland, where rent rates were too high and food was too scarce, the Molly Maguires were rural, country boys who likely saw themselves as the Irish version of Robin Hood...

Last week, talks between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and UPS broke down twice—once as June drew to an end and the Teamsters walked from the table demanding that UPS present their “last, best, and final offer,” and again on July 5 with both parties pushing the blame. Contracts for the 330,000-plus UPS delivery drivers and warehouse logistics workers...

The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union and major Democrat backer, has slammed the Biden administration for giving billions of dollars in funding for boosting electric vehicle (EV) production while traditional autoworkers would lose their jobs or be paid lower wages. “The federal government announced a massive $9.2 billion giveaway loan to Ford Motor Co. through the Department of...

Commentary For much of “Downton Abbey,” viewers are treated with glorious eye candy of British aristocratic life in a mighty estate, robust at first but fading as the seasons progress. What we are not given is a rationale behind the whole cultural structure of the house and the social order surrounding it. This is particularly important for American audiences who know...

Ron Paul The political and financial class breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The bill suspends the debt ceiling for two years, thus avoiding the establishment’s nightmare of a government default on its debt. Rather, it allows the government to continue adding trillions of dollars of debt that will be monetized by...

Reclaiming the US | Covert Geopolitics is a movement that seeks to uncover the hidden truths and lies that have been censored by the US government. It is a movement that is gaining traction in the US and around the world, as more and more people are becoming aware of the covert geopolitics that have been taking place in the...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently signed a bill that effectively ends the state’s right-to-work law, a move that has been met with both praise and criticism. While the move has been widely reported, there are some little-known facts about the decision that are worth exploring. First, the right-to-work law was originally passed in 2013 under the administration of former Governor...

Commentary In their 2010 book “The Blueprint,” authors Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer document how four “progressive” Colorado mega-donors funded political hit squads to defeat Republican state legislative candidates. (After the book was published, one of the four mega-donors bought himself the state’s governorship.) The authors explain that the mega-donors’ project was made possible by new state and federal campaign...

The FBI’s efforts to limit the free expression of speech on Twitter call for a “thorough investigation” from the new Congress in January, according to longtime bureau agent Marc Ruskin. That the FBI is flagging accounts for Twitter to take action against, as shown in the sixth batch of Twitter disclosures, seems a government overreach and runs counter to FBI...

“Ten years ago … the idea of physical addiction to cannabis was absolutely laughable. That people would be having psychotic episodes, and then psychotic breaks, just from THC? It was unfathomable.” Ben Cort is the CEO of the Foundry Treatment Center and author of “Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry.” “If one...