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“Restore Power to the People!” and Other Misdirections of the AFL-CIO

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0042, 29th January, 2012
So says an advertisement seeking to employ college students as political operatives for a group called Working America, which, ironically, seeks to expand the welfare state and demands that government pay people to not work. But this is not the only irony on the flier. Here’s its sales pitch: Organize with Working America and stand [...]
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on the immorality of modern trade unionism

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1626, 23rd February, 2011
Once upon a time, the legend goes, we lived in industrial darkness, in a world where merciless factory owners paid slave wages and pushed their worker-peasants to the very limits of human endurance. Groups of workers decided to get together, presumably for the purpose of arguing for better conditions, but the eeeevil governments, which were [...]
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supreme court voids labor board decisions — good, but only a band-aid

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1434, 17th June, 2010
It is immoral for government to stand between a willing employer and a willing employee by dictating the terms of employment.  It is likewise immoral for government to compel employers to keep employees who are refusing to show up for work, that is, striking.  And it is a denial of basic freedoms of political behavior [...]
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