Workers Campaign To Repeal Missouri’s Right-To-Work Law
On August 7th, Missouri voters will decide the fate of Prop. A — a ballot initiative that could...
March 6th 2021
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On August 7th, Missouri voters will decide the fate of Prop. A — a ballot initiative that could...
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone that when faced with a choice between...
“The day that organized labor has been dreading for several years is finally here,” Sarah Jaffe...
In February, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME. Today, a slight...
Here’s a very quick summary based on an even quicker read of the Court’s Janus opinion which...
Justice Gorsuch’s silence during the Janus oral argument generated considerable buzz. Wishful...
Boeing pursues an NLRB appeal of the unionization vote of a “micro unit” of plant workers in...
Janus, the Court’s case about public sector agency fees that will be decided this term, is a...
A coalition of six organizations committed to eliminating discrimination against LGBT...
This term, the Supreme Court will decide Janus, where it will determine the future of agency...
Janus v. AFSCME will soon decide the constitutional fate of fair-share fees for public sector unions. These fees support unions’ collective bargaining work on behalf of employees they are legally required to represent but who are not union members. Most prognosticators expect the Supreme Court to hand the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF) a win on its claim that such fees violate the First Amendment rights of non-union workers. Yet, as I develop further below, the history that led to Janus offers three thin rays of hope to the labor movement.
In 1912, when the labor leader Eugene V. Debs ran for President for the fourth time as the...