Labor Suppression
The Labor Suppression capture lane traces 335 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-26 | Saudi Arabia Launches Yemen Intervention Armed with Billions in Raytheon Weapons, Beginning Eight-Year Atrocity Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-03-09 | Wisconsin Becomes 25th Right-to-Work State, Completing ALEC's Union Destruction Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Scott Fitzgerald · Robin Vos · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-23 | "Corinthian 15" Launch First Student Debt Strike in U.S. History Debt Collective · Corinthian 15 · Arne Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | West Virginia Suffers Highest Per-Capita Opioid Rate, 67 Pills Per Person Annually Purdue Pharma · Drug Wholesalers · McKesson · Cardinal Health · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ver.di Union | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-12 | Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · Arne Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley · Mona Hanna-Attisha · LeeAnne Walters · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-24 | NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure Airlines · Telecom companies · Pharmaceutical companies · Agribusiness | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language Rick Snyder · American Legislative Exchange Council · Mackinac Center · Michigan GOP · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-01 | Indiana Becomes 23rd Right-to-Work State Using ALEC Model Legislation Mitch Daniels · American Legislative Exchange Council · Indiana Republican Party · National Right to Work Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders S&P 500 companies · Shareholders · Workers | confirmed | |
| 2011-11-29 | Michigan Emergency Manager Seizes Control of Flint, Stripping Democratic Governance Rick Snyder · Michael Brown · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-30 | U.S. Drone Strike Assassinates Anwar al-Awlaki, American Citizen, Without Trial Anwar al-Awlaki · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-13 | ALEC Exposed: Leaked Documents Reveal 800 Corporate-Written Model Bills American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · The Nation · Corporate members · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-17 | CIA Drone Strike Massacres 42 Civilians at Pakistani Tribal Council Meeting Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-11 | Wisconsin Act 10 Crushes Public Sector Unions Using ALEC Model Legislation Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Wisconsin GOP · Koch brothers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-08-04 | GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid U.S. Government Accountability Office · Tom Harkin | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority David Keating · Federal Election Commission · U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · Leon Panetta | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-15 | Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions Uber · Lyft · DoorDash · Instacart · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-10-06 | Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity Al Franken · Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-23 | Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Industries · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-04-05 | Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-01 | Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer Organize White Nationalist Speaker at Duke University Stephen Miller · Richard Spencer | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan Palantir Technologies · Joint IED Defeat Organization · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe Central Intelligence Agency · Dana Priest · Washington Post · Poland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Ted Poe · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · Toys R Us | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024) Corinthian Colleges · ITT Tech · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-03 | Dick Gephardt Founds Lobbying Firm After 28 Years as House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt · Gephardt Group · DLA Piper | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Models Achieve Nationwide Adoption, Guaranteeing Private Prison Profits American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-01 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand Donald Trump · Mark Burnett · NBC | reported | |
| 2004-01-08 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand Donald Trump · NBC · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-15 | NSA Awards AT&T $500 Million Multi-Year Surveillance Infrastructure Contract George W. Bush · Michael Hayden · AT&T Leadership · NSA Officials | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture State Policy Network · Thomas A. Roe · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-08 | Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley Against Locked-Out Dockworkers, First Use Since 1971 George W. Bush · Pacific Maritime Association · International Longshore and Warehouse Union · U.S. District Court | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-02 | Poindexter Announces DARPA Total Information Awareness Program John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office · George W. Bush administration | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-21 | WorldCom Files for Bankruptcy with $107 Billion in Assets Bernard Ebbers · WorldCom · Scott Sullivan | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act to Block Local Minimum Wage Increases American Legislative Exchange Council · National Restaurant Association · McDonald's · Walmart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. unions | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020 Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · Drug Enforcement Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Stock Options Become Primary Executive Compensation, Aligning CEO Interests with Short-Term Stock Price Manipulation Corporate boards · Compensation consultants · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate donors · state Republican legislators · Scott Walker | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-19 | UPS Strike Ends in Rare Labor Victory, Teamsters Win Part-Time Worker Protections United Parcel Service · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Ron Carey · AFL-CIO | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Program Reaches $44 Billion Total Cost Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-08-22 | Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Ends Welfare Entitlement Bill Clinton · Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress | confirmed | |
| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Mandates Work Requirements After Two Years of Assistance Bill Clinton · Republican Congress · Low-Income Workers | confirmed | |
| 1995-07-13 | Detroit Newspaper Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement, Transforms Media Industry Labor Relations Detroit Free Press · Detroit News · Gannett Company · Knight Ridder · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Federal Three Strikes Law Mandates Life Imprisonment for Third Violent Felony Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1994-01-01 | ALEC Passes Three Strikes Model Legislation Co-Sponsored by Private Prison Industry and NRA American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · National Rifle Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1992-04-06 | Caterpillar Defeats UAW Strike Using Permanent Replacement Threat, Pattern Bargaining Collapses Caterpillar Inc. · United Automobile Workers · Donald Fites | confirmed | |
| 1991-12-01 | Harvard's Sachs Becomes Yeltsin Economic Advisor After 'Grand Bargain' for Soviet Support Rejected by Bush Administration Jeffrey Sachs · Boris Yeltsin · Mikhail Gorbachev · Yegor Gaidar · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | Union Avoidance Consulting Industry Emerges as $400+ Million Annual Business Union avoidance consultants · Corporate employers · Labor Management Institute · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 1989-09-25 | Christian Coalition Founded - Grassroots Religious Right Electoral Infrastructure Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition | confirmed | |
| 1989-03-04 | Eastern Airlines Strike Leads to Corporate Liquidation, Frank Lorenzo's Union Destruction Model Eastern Airlines · Frank Lorenzo · International Association of Machinists · Air Line Pilots Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model KKR · Henry Kravis · Ross Johnson · RJR Nabisco | confirmed | |
| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant IBP Inc. · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · United Food and Commercial Workers · Congressional Investigators | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-04 | WARN Act Passes with Corporate Loopholes, Toothless Plant Closing Protection U.S. Congress · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · AFL-CIO | confirmed | |
| 1988-06-29 | Beck Decision Enables Workers to Withhold Union Dues for Political Activity, Weakening Labor Resources U.S. Supreme Court · Communications Workers of America · Harry Beck · National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools John M. Olin Foundation · William E. Simon · Stanford Law School · Harvard Law School · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Philanthropy Roundtable Founded - Conservative Donor Coordination Infrastructure Philanthropy Roundtable · Institute for Educational Affairs · Koch Network · Conservative foundations | confirmed | |
| 1986-09-26 | Reagan Vetoes Apartheid Sanctions, Congress Overrides in Historic Rebuke Ronald Reagan · Desmond Tutu | confirmed | |
| 1985-08-17 | Hormel Strike Broken Through Permanent Replacement, Ending Pattern Bargaining in Meatpacking Hormel · United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-9 · Austin Minnesota workers · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-31 | Idaho Legislature Overrides Veto to Impose Right-to-Work Law, Devastating Labor Movement Idaho Republican Party · Idaho Legislature · Governor John Evans · Idaho Department of Labor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | CNP Establishes Three-Times-Yearly Meeting Schedule at Secret Locations Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature Ronald Reagan · American workers · Wealthy elite · Corporate executives | confirmed | |
| 1983-11-02 | Greyhound Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement Victory, PATCO Pattern Spreads to Private Sector Greyhound Lines · Amalgamated Transit Union · Fred Currey | confirmed | |
| 1983-06-30 | Phelps Dodge Breaks Copper Strike Using Permanent Replacement Workers, Destroying Union Phelps Dodge Corporation · United Steelworkers · Arizona miners · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 1981-08-03 | Reagan Fires PATCO Strikers: Union-Busting Era Begins Ronald Reagan · Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization · PATCO · Federal Aviation Administration | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-01 | Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs Jack Welch · General Electric | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections Ronald Reagan · Anne Gorsuch · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates Ronald Reagan · American workers · Labor unions · Corporate America | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory Ronald Reagan · Arthur Laffer · David Stockman · Greg Mankiw · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap Ronald Reagan · Top 1% earners · Middle class · Working class | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Lewis Powell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Corporate lobbying groups · Reagan administration | confirmed | |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses American workers · Corporate management · Federal Reserve · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-08-31 | J.P. Stevens Found Guilty of Massive NLRB Violations, Creates Corporate Union-Busting Playbook J.P. Stevens & Company · Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union · National Labor Relations Board · Corporate Campaign Inc. | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts Gerald Ford · Jimmy Hoffa | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter Donald Segretti · Dwight L. Chapin · Ken W. Clawson · Herbert Kalmbach · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-03 | Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation United Auto Workers Local 1112 · General Motors Assembly Division · General Motors Corporation · Senator Ted Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 1970-12-29 | Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety President Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · AFL-CIO · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine Milton Friedman · Chicago School economists | confirmed | |
| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions Roger Blough · Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable · U.S. Steel · General Motors · +4 | confirmed |