Do Public Sector Unions Wield Too Much Power in Blue Cities?

Blue City Blues · Mar 24, 2026 · 54m

In late February, Nicholas Bagley and Robert Gordon, who have both had extensive careers in Democratic governance – Nicholas was Chief Legal Counsel for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer until 2022, Robert most recently served as a Deputy Assistant to the President on the Domestic Policy Council of the Biden White House – went where few left-of-center commentators have been willing to go: they directly called out what they see as the excessive political influence of public sector unions.

Those deep-pocketed unions are, of course, one of the major power centers within the Democratic Party, which…