Bryan O'Keefe is a writer who contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2005 and 2007. His pieces for the magazine focused on labor unions, workers' rights, and related policy issues.
WHEN JOHN SWEENEY was elected president of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he promised a different kind of labor federation. Instead of antagonizing environmentalists, feminists, anti-war protestors, and others on the left, Sweeney pledged to build alliances and coalitions with groups that he considered…
EVEN THOUGH HOUSE Democrats campaigned on promises to improve ethics, promote greater transparency and disclosure, and fight corruption, it now appears they will not require some of their top campaign contributors to live by those same vows.
THE LEADERSHIP of California's largest public labor unions declared a crisis last week--and it had nothing to do with outsourcing, Enron, WorldCom, the minimum wage, healthcare, or any of the other causes that usually whip union bosses into frenzy. Instead, the controversy surrounds an initiative…