Unions' Amicus Brief in Mulhall Here is the amicus brief filed by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Service Employees International Union, and National Education Association, in support of Petitioner UNITE HERE in Mulhall.
The Court and the Future of Unions: Public Sector Edition At the end of the 2012 Term, the Supreme Court decided Knox v. SEIU, Local 1000. The case involves the constitutional permissibility of mandatory dues-payments arrangements in the public sector. At issue in Knox itself was an accounting procedure that SEIU used for a one-time assessment to pay for a “political fight-back fund.” Because the […]
What the Grant of Certiorari in Mulhall Means Over the next two weeks I will be offering my preliminary thoughts on Mulhall (which Ben posted on last week). Here I will address the significance of the Court’s grant of certiorari in the case. At first I thought that pro-labor groups, gripped by understandable anxiety after the activist anti-labor decision in Knox, were overreacting […]
The Court and the Future of Unions: Private Sector Edition This Term, the Court will hear what could be the most significant labor law case in a generation. The case is Mulhall v. Unite HERE Local 355 and it involves the ability of unions and management to set alternative ground rules for union organizing campaigns. Because essentially all successful union organizing campaigns today are conducted […]
