Hard Labor for Freedom Conservatives

Posted on FreedomConservatism.org on July 29, 2024

When Teamsters president Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention on July 15, he claimed that “only when Americans band together in democratic unions that we win real improvements on wages, benefits and working conditions.”

Much of the nationalist-populist Right welcomed the union president’s appearance at the RNC and argued that American conservatives should abandon their traditional opposition to Big Labor and support for right-to-work laws.

For example, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley wrote in Compact that conservatives ought to follow O’Brien’s “roadmap” — allying with unions to impose new taxes, trade barriers, and regulations on the American economy.

Freedom Conservatives reject any such leftward lurch. That would make our movement, and more importantly our country, worse off.

“The free enterprise system is the foundation of prosperity,” argues the FreeCon Statement of Principles. “We commit to reducing the cost of living through competitive markets, greater individual choice, and free trade with free people, while upholding the rule of law, freedom of contract, and freedom of association.”

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