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A Better Bargain
Greater Voice, Power, and Support to Workers
Not What They Bargained For: A Survey of American Workers
The Better Bargain Survey explores workers’ attitudes about their jobs and organized labor; their appetite for greater support, voice, and power in the workplace; and their reactions to political messages and policy reforms
A Better Bargain: Worker Voice and Representation
A proposal for improving labor-management relations in the workplace and in the boardroom
A Better Bargain: Worker Power in the Labor Market
A proposal for empowering workers to help set the terms and conditions of their employment
A Better Bargain: Worker Solidarity and Mutual Support
A proposal for channeling labor resources away from politics and toward worker benefits and training
A Seat at the Table
A Conservative Future for the American Labor Movement
Labor’s Conservative Heart
The trade union is a quintessentially Tocquevillian institution and the one that brought down Soviet communism. Conservatives must rescue the American labor movement from Big Labor’s partisanship and restore its community-building purpose.
Workers Are People, Not Widgets
Meet Alex and Lance, two blue-collar workers in southwestern Ohio. One had union representation as he sought a foothold in the labor market; the other did not. Their lives remind us that there is still power in a union.
Workers of the World
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?
Labor leader David Rolf and American Compass’s Oren Cass discuss the potential for sectoral bargaining in America.
Policy Proposals
A Better Bargain: Worker Voice and Representation
A proposal for improving labor-management relations in the workplace and in the boardroom
News & Commentary
What American Workers Really Want Instead of a Union at Amazon
POLITICO—American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses the failed unionization drive at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL, warehouse and what it says about what kind of support and representation workers actually want.
America Needs a Conservative Labor Movement
WALL STREET JOURNAL—American Compass’s Oren Cass argues that a strong, reformed labor movement has unique potential to advance conservative priorities.
The Conservative Case for Organized Labor
NEW YORK MAGAZINE—Eric Levitz interviews American Compass’s Oren Cass about his vision for a pro-worker conservatism.
American labour unions should stop playing politics
FINANCIAL TIMES—American Compass’s Oren Cass discusses the state of American organized labor and what the working class wants from their unions.