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American Compass’s Wells King connects dysfunctional labor laws, declining union-participation, and partisan interests to the rise of economic inequality.

Inclusion is a necessary first step toward fixing America’s broken labor law system.

Workers and employers should have the freedom to collaborate and design new forms of worker organizations.

American workers are the backbone of this country. In the wake of the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to remove barriers burdening the American worker. On Capitol Hill, the Republican Study Committee’s American Worker Task Force has proposed bold new solutions that would empower our nation’s workers to face today’s challenges as well as tomorrow’s.

Would sectoral bargaining provide a better framework for American labor law?

Allowing for alternative forms of worker organization makes sense if and only if they contribute to the growth of full-fledged collective bargaining unions.

My underlying disagreement comes not from an appeal to the popular will but, rather, a difference of values: I’d rather have an economy that allows for more creativity, choice, and wealth creation even if it results in less equality.

Cardus’s Brian Dijkema advocates for a new conservative home for organized labor in this adaptation from American Compass’s “A Seat at the Table” series.

Few Americans realize how our system of organized labor is an outlier among Western nations. In some European countries, unions attract a greater share of workers and maintain less adversarial relationships with business. A better understanding of these alternative models can guide American policymakers as they address our labor policy challenges.

Would sectoral bargaining provide a better framework for American labor law?

American Compass’s Oren Cass talks with WorkRise’s Elisabeth Jacobs about the current economic crisis, the ways society has come to devalue certain kinds of labor, and the need for alternative pathways to the workforce.

Labor law has failed to evolve alongside a changing labor market. Some labor leaders have been moving ahead anyway.

Labor leader David Rolf and American Compass’s Oren Cass discuss the potential for sectoral bargaining in America.

Would sectoral bargaining provide a better framework for American labor law?

American labor law has become worse than useless: a lower share of the private-sector labor force is organized today than before the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. The time has come for an entirely new model.