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Prof. Elizabeth Oglesby, The Conversation, Aug. 30, 2022 "... I’ve been researching human rights and immigration from Central America since the 1980s. In today’s polarized debates over immigration, the substantial contributions that...

By John Stahl, Esq. Collectively bargained workers’ compensation programs, which are commonly known as carve outs, are a cousin to “opt-out” programs in that both are alternatives to traditional workers’ compensation systems...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) An appeal of a lawsuit by nonunion employees who pay an annual fee to their union and are challenging what constitutes proper notice of temporary mid-year fees assessed by a union and used for political purposes is not...

One set of federal laws says only authorized workers may be employed. Another set of statutes says all workers, authorized or not, have certain rights. In a Wisconsin pizza factory, these two federal laws come to a face-off. - New York Times, July 28...

" Americans are outraged when tax laws and revenue agents bite them, but seem scantly or not at all troubled when our immigration laws and their bureaucratic enforcers devour people and property rights. No doubt this disparity of concern proves the...

"This Spotlight looks at the available data on immigrant workers and unions, highlighting variations in union representation rates of immigrant workers across certain sectors." Jeanne Batalova, Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2011 ...

"Farmers around the country reported huge crop losses in 2012 thanks to immigration crackdowns that pushed away seasonal workers, especially in states like Alabama that passed their own hardline legislation. Labor will inevitably butt heads with...

Tensions within the Wisconsin Supreme Court may have gotten even more heated during last month's union reform case than the discordant decision upholding the law curbing the power of public employee unions suggested. According to unnamed sources,...

This week, several of us bloggers ( Dan Schwartz , Donna Ballman , Eric Meyer , Jon Hyman , and I) will be choosing a debate question on a labor and employment law topic for each of the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. DISCLAIMER: I have...

In 150 Years, San Francisco Bay Area Working Families Have Made Progress, But Still Fight for the Same Goals In the hundred and fifty year history of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the watershed event was one that happened 70 years ago –...

Why the workers' comp community should pay attention to the Wisconsin union standoff The Fight For / Against Unions "The End of Unions?" That's the headline grabber at The Globe and Mail , a Canadian news agency, which reminds...

In 150 Years, San Francisco Bay Area Working Families Have Made Progress, But Still Fight for the Same Goals In the hundred and fifty year history of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the watershed event was one that happened 70 years ago –...

In a previous post, we discussed the 1.5 million dollar wage gap for women in the legal profession and the insight that while educational attainment does not narrow wage gaps, unions do. This week, we'll take a closer look at what unions can do for...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The California Court of Appeal has ruled that the mandatory furlough days for State Fund employees represented by the SEIU were illegal and the workers are entitled to back pay. Read the case Source: California Court...

ATHENS Greece - (APINTL) The Greek government is battling growing discontent over a new round of economic austerity, with fresh strikes, public hostility, and party dissent testing the nation's ability to make it out of its debt crisis. Unions...