Federal mediators yesterday sided with unions representing Long Island Rail Road employees in their dispute with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Presidential Emergency Board — the second one convened in the l... More »
A group of international union representatives met in New York yesterday to plan another round of day-long protests at fast-food restaurants — this time across the United States and around the world. The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Washington Post r... More »
Over the weekend, after the release of audio files documenting racist comments made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, players on the Clippers considered boycotting their upcoming playoff game in protest. The team ultimately decided to wait until N... More »
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a Massachusetts law that provides for the unionization of certain family childcare providers, such as nannies and nurseries. The suit is the latest of several recent chal... More »
President Obama signed an executive order yesterday intended to help close pay disparities between men and women employed by federal contractors, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today report. The order bars federal contractors from retaliating... More »
In what ESPN calls a potentially “game-changing” moment for college athletics, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago has ruled that college football players who receive scholarships are “employees” withi... More »
A labor dispute between a state regulator, a shipping association, and the longshoremen’s union in New York Harbor has escalated to federal court, the Wall Street Journal reports. On one side of the fight is the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, ... More »
The Obama Administration announced today that the Labor Department will amend its regulations to require overtime pay for millions of white-collar employees, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post report. Businesses currently have discreti... More »
As members of the Supreme Court draft their opinions in Harris v. Quinn — the case we have been closely watching because it may determine the future of union security clauses for public-sector workers — a number of other potentially significant cases challengi... More »
The Northwestern football players who petitioned to form the country’s first union of college athletes are scheduled to appear at a hearing today with the local office of the National Labor Relations Board, USA Today reports. In a profile of the College Athlet... More »
In his fifth State of the Union address last night, President Obama pledged to sign an Executive Order to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 per hour. With pizza puns and references to “Mad Men,” the President also asked Congr... More »
Earlier today, the Supreme Court decided Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp., 571 U.S. ___ (2014), a case about whether employers are required to pay employees for the time they spend changing into and out of protective gear (and a case for which we wrote an... More »
May 21st, 2014