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Philip Miles
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Why Did a Judge Vacate Tom Brady's Suspension?
I'm assuming you already heard about it - today, a federal judge vacated Tom Brady's 4-game suspension for "Deflate Gate ." You can read the actual order here . Generally, arbitration decisions are final and courts afford them extraordinary...
Sheppard Mullin
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
AFL-CIO’s Industry Wide Agreement May Have Wide Reach in Hospitality Industry
by Rachel Tischler Mid-way through 2012, the Hotel Association of New York City and the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO (the “Union”), renewed a seven-year collective bargaining agreement known as the Industry Wide Agreement...
Bajeerah LaCava
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Split US Supreme Court: Partial Public Employees Can’t Be Required To Pay Union Fees
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) A class of in-home care providers, classified as “partial public employees,” who do not wish to join or support a union cannot be required to pay an agency fee, a split U.S. Supreme Court ruled this...
State Net
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
State Net Capitol Journal: Republicans Push Right-To-Work Laws Against Determined Opposition
by Lou Cannon Buoyed by hefty legislative majorities, Republicans in several states are pushing hard for right-to-work laws and other anti-union legislation. Democrats and their labor allies are pushing back, both in the legislatures and the courts...
Donna Ballman
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Is It Time To Start a Union At Your Workplace?
While you're enjoying your long weekend, thanks to the labor movement, enjoying a weekend at all thanks to unions, getting paid a living wage thanks to unions, and getting ready to go back to your safe workplace thanks to the labor movement, it's...
State Net
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Illinois Governor Imposes Right-to-Work For Public Employees
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) issued an executive order last week absolving public employees who decline to join a union from having to pay fees that support union activities like collective bargaining. State law currently allows state workers to opt...
Jon Hyman
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
NLRB Issues Official Guidance on “Ambush Election” Rules
One week from today, the NLRB’s “ambush election” rules take effect. Yesterday, the Board published its official guidance discussing how it will process representation cases going forward. According to the Board, these new rules do...
John Holmquist
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
VW and UAW: Sign and Then What?
VW announced that the UAW has been certified as representing at least 45% of the workforce at its Tennessee plant under its Community Organization Engagement policy and that the union will therefore have the opportunity to meet with plant management and...
State Net
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Wisconsin Supreme Court Backs Walker, Upholds Anti-Union Law
The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a controversial 2011 law championed by Gov. Scott Walker (R) that essentially bars collective bargaining for public employee unions. Unions had challenged the law, calling it unconstitutional. But by a 5-2 decision,...
LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Staff
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
NLRB Unanimously Declines Jurisdiction in Northwestern Football Player Unionization Case
The National Labor Relations Board has declined to assert jurisdiction in which Northwestern University grant-in-aid scholarship football players sought representation by the College Athletes Players Association for the purpose of collective bargaining...
Doug Esten
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
New Bill in Congress Would Crush Employers That Retaliate Against Union Sympathists
It’s seen by some as making labor organizing akin to a civil right . “ Woo hoo! ” said none of you. On Wednesday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), top members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education...
Jon Hyman
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
“Unionism” as a Protected Class?
Way back in 2012, the New York Times published an op-ed titled A Civil Right to Unionize , which argued that Title VII needs to be amended to include “the right to unionize” as a protected civil right. At the time, I argued that including...
John Holmquist
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
An End Run Around Michigan's Right to Work Law? Not So Fast.
Michigan's right to work law was passed and signed in December of 2012. The law did not go into effect until March 28, 2013. The law contains a provision which states that collective bargaining agreements("CBA") with union security clauses...
Eric Meyer
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
New Bill in Congress Would Crush Employers That Retaliate Against Union Sympathists
It’s seen by some as making labor organizing akin to a civil right . “ Woo hoo! ” said none of you. On Wednesday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), top members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education...
Jon Hyman
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Union Organizing as a Protected Class? Worst … Idea … EVER
Raise your hand if you think that it needs to be easier for workers to unionize? If I could look through my computer screen, I’d see very few of my readers’ hands raised. Two hands that would be raised, though, are those of Washington Senator...
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