June 1st 2020
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In late April, and for the first time in its history, the Supreme Court of Israel decided that a law is unconstitutional because it violated employees’ property rights to their wages. The law in question required that those who employed asylum seekers deduct 20%...
There has been an ironic convergence over the last two years between Brazil and the United States in relation to the law governing trade union financing. The entire public sector and much of the private sector are currently so-called “right to work” in the U.S.,...
Nearly sixty years after the enactment of Title VII, discrimination still pervades the American workplace. White men continue to dominate the ranks of company management. To address (or to give the appearance of addressing) their lackluster workplace diversity,...
The agriculture industry is facing labor shortages at farms and food processors as a result of covid-19. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has announced that it would suspend visa processing for Mexican guest workers, which will prevent seasonal and migrant agriculture...
What’s in labor news today? A cursory Google search gives the impression that organized labor is today plagued by fractious infighting. Indeed, there is no shortage of articles highlighting the apparent ideological divisions among labor unions in the face of a...
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Babb v. Wilkie. The question before the Court was whether federal workers alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must show that the adverse action would not have happened...
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Gary Jones resigned yesterday after the union’s executive board announced it would commence removal proceedings against Jones and another UAW official, Vance Pearson. Jones and Pearson are said to have been involved in a...
On Tuesday, the Seventh Circuit held that government employees who paid agency fees to public sector unions cannot recover fees collected prior to the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. The plaintiff in Tuesday’s case was Mark Janus himself. ...
Yesterday The New York Times spotlighted a post-Janus battle in Alaska over public sector union membership. While Alaska has traditionally been friendly union territory, Governor Mike Dunleavy, a conservative Republican who took office late last year, has shown...
For the first time in decades, British Airways pilots are on strike. Pilots went on a 48-hour strike that started at midnight on Sunday over a contentious pay dispute: British Airways cut pay and pension benefits for pilots during precarious years for the airline...
Workers at the Battery Wharf Hotel in Boston, represented by UNITE HERE Local 26, have been on strike since Thursday following a year and a half of contract negotiations. Workers are calling for improved pay and pensions; protections for immigrant workers; and...
Yesterday, Mark Joseph Stern reported in Slate about Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson’s plan to alter the process by which the state deducts union member dues from public employees’ paychecks. The plan was released last Tuesday in the form of a legal opinion...