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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...