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August 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

On Saturday, several Democratic presidential candidates headed to Las Vegas for a forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The candidates laid out their plans for the economy and labor law reform in front of an audience of AFSCME members. The forum brought a focus to labor issues that were […]

June 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Following a ten-month grassroots campaign led by the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance (PDWA) and supported by over forty unions and community organizations, the Philadelphia City Council introduced a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights last Thursday. If passed, this bill would guarantee written contracts; minimum wage; overtime; paid time off and rest breaks; advanced scheduling notice; […]

June 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Nevada has enacted a slew of new laws aimed at protecting workers. Yesterday, Governor Steve Sisolak signed a measure allowing state employees to engage in collective bargaining. Although the state will retain final say on some key bargaining subjects – including salaries – the law extends collective bargaining rights to more than 20,000 public employees. […]

March 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Oakland teachers voted to ratify their union’s tentative agreement with the school district, thus ending their strike. As reported yesterday in OnLabor, the Oakland Education Association – Oakland Unified School District contract includes an 11% raise over three years, a one-time 3% bonus, reductions in class sizes in high needs schools, an increase in the […]

February 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

In response to pressure from unions, community groups, and progressive lawmakers, Amazon backed out of a deal under which it would have received $3 billion in public subsidies to open a corporate campus in Queens. In a New York City Council meeting in late January, Amazon executives refused to agree to neutrality if workers at […]

Weekend News & Commentary — July 14–15, 2018

Jul 15, 2018 Jenny Braun

The Fifth Circuit recently ruled that the fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger violated the National Labor Relations Act when it prohibited employees from wearing “fight for 15” buttons at work. Amanda Healey wore a quarter-sized button in April of 2015, and a couple of co-workers caught on, and hoped, too, to show support for the movement […]

Could Originalism Save Public Sector Unions?

Jun 7, 2018 Maddy Joseph

Justice Gorsuch’s silence during the Janus oral argument generated considerable buzz. Wishful (yet tentative) commentators hoped the silence was a sign that the new Justice’s originalism would lead him to uphold Abood. To be sure, Justice Thomas, the Court’s other steadfast originalist, voted with the majority in Harris. And commentators have largely assumed that both […]

Janus Amicus Demonstrates That Unions Protect LGBT Workers

May 1, 2018 Catherine Ordoñez

A coalition of six organizations committed to eliminating discrimination against LGBT individuals in the workplace filed an amicus brief in support of the respondents in Janus. Miriam Frank—teacher, feminist, and author of Out In the Union: A Labor History of Queer America—said this brief marks the first time that a coalition of LGBT rights organizations […]

Janus Should Lose, and the Justices Know It

Jan 31, 2018 Andrew Strom

Most of the coverage of Janus v. AFSCME, like this recent piece in USA Today, simply (and perhaps correctly) assumes that the five Republican appointees on the Supreme Court will use the case to overturn Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the 1977 case upholding fair share fees for public sector workers. But, now that […]

Will the Supreme Court Ignore Pleading Rules in Janus?

Sep 7, 2017 Andrew Strom

Many Court watchers think it is a foregone conclusion that the Supreme Court will grant the cert petition in Janus v. AFSCME, and then overturn the forty-year old decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. While I’m not willing to bet against that, it’s worth noting that to reach that result the Court would […]

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