The Center for Worker Freedom is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to protecting the rights and freedoms of workers to chart their own path, free from coercion.
Recent Publications
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Congress Must Oppose Big Labor’s “PRO Act” Power Grab
Congressional Democrats have reintroduced the so-called “Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act,” a bloated grab-bag of policies that empower labor union bosses at the expense of workers. Americans for Tax Reform and the Center for Worker Freedom urge all members of Congress to oppose the PRO Act. Congressman Bobby Scott…
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New Map Shows Unionization Rates by State in 2024
Following the release of annual data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last month which revealed record low national union membership rates, Americans for Tax Reform published a new map showing the rate of unionization in each U.S. state. The new data for BLS revealed that in…
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Report Shows Union Membership Rate Fell to Single Digits for the First Time
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published data showing that union membership nationwide slumped to 9.9 percent in 2024 – the lowest in recorded history since the agency began estimating comparable metrics in 1983. The decrease to a single-digit union membership rate for the first time…
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Biden’s Project Labor Agreement Mandate Faces Successful Challenge in Court
In a win for taxpayers, builders and contractors, this week the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that the Biden administration’s project labor agreement (PLA) policy implementation was illegal, teeing up more legal challenges in the future. PLAs require contractors to sign union labor agreements, often forcing government contractors…
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Labor Implications of President Trump’s Day-One Executive Orders and Actions
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed 26 executive orders and announced dozens of other presidential actions. Below is a selection of these actions which have implications for labor policy in the public and private sectors. President Trump Announces Cabinet…
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Report Shows Extent of Tax Dollars Spent on Public-Sector Unionism
Last week, the Institute for the American Worker (I4AW) released a report demonstrating the degree to which taxpayer dollars are spent by federal government employees on collective bargaining purposes. The report was entitled “Transparency Needed in the Process of Federal Collective Bargaining” and was compiled by Molly…
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ATR Applauds Rejection of Lauren McFerran by Senate
Americans for Tax Reform applauds Senators for voting down the renomination of Lauren McFerran to serve another term on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The rejection of McFerran by the Senate will protect the principles of worker freedom that Americans voted for in November. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader…
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Union Members Increasingly Rejected Union Bosses and Supported Trump
The dust has settled on the landslide election for the GOP, after which they will now control the House, Senate and Presidency. The last few weeks have brought on a period of soul-searching for the Democrat Party, now seriously re-considering who they represent. It has been well-documented that …