The 2016 election provided Republicans with an immense opportunity to govern and to demonstrate that their policies work. Between President Trump’s unexpected victory and GOP dominance on the state and federal levels, the chances for reform legislation abounded.

One early opportunity we identified was to reform the 83-year-old regimen of labor laws, which are obsolete for workers, who are their supposed beneficiaries, and survive only as a political weapon for the Left. We pointed out, for example, that workers’ freedom of association is seriously restricted by current law, something the Supreme Court confirmed this year when it forbade closed shops and compulsory union membership for government workers.