I talked to Scot Bertram on the Future of Freedom podcast about the conservative approach to organized labor. As I’ve written for the magazine before, conservatives have been smacking around organized labor for 75 years, and it’s been a political and economic success. Unions are little more than a constituent part of the progressive movement, and 94 percent of private-sector workers aren’t union members because they realize there’s little benefit to letting corrupt organizations such as the UAW skim their paychecks and send the money to Democrats. Despite all the hype that unions have been getting in the past few years, with opinion polls showing more positive views toward organized labor than in the past, the union membership rate in 2022 was the lowest on record.

On the podcast, I defend what Michael Watson of the Capital Research Center calls “the Taft-Hartley consensus” of voluntarism, transparency, and accountability for unions. You can listen here on Apple Podcasts, or search on other platforms for the Future of Freedom podcast from America’s Talking.