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Zubik and the Ministerial Exception

Mar 10, 2016 Y. Gloria Park

As the Supreme Court gears up to hear Zubik v. Burwell and the six other consolidated cases once again challenging the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, an important question lingers about religious employers’ potential ability to flout the mandate even if the challenge fails. More specifically, could the “ministerial exception,” as recognized in Hosanna-Tabor v. […]

Why The NLRB Should Allow Graduate Student Bargaining

Mar 2, 2016 Catherine Fisk

Jon Weinberg’s recent post analyzed why the Board should overrule Brown University and hold that Columbia University graduate student assistants are statutory employees within the meaning of Section 2(3) of the NLRA. In a brief I co-authored and filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors, AAUP explained why the Board should allow […]

The NLRB’s Next Play With Student Employees

Feb 25, 2016 Jon Weinberg

When the National Labor Relations Board invited briefs in Columbia University (02-RC-143012), it indicated it would revisit its decision in Brown University (342 NLRB 483) that “graduate assistants who perform services at a university in connection with their studies are not statutory employees under the National Labor Relations Act.” In other words, the Board will reconsider […]

The DOL is Best Hope for Senate Cafeteria Workers

Feb 17, 2016 Lauren Godles

In late 2015, Senate cafeteria workers made headlines when they organized to demand that Restaurant Associates, the exclusive caterer at the U.S. Senate, pay a living wage (covered here and here in our News and Commentary). The workers’ efforts included strikes and walkouts and received high-profile, bipartisan support. Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell posited: “This story […]

Public Employee Unions and Pensions

Jan 22, 2016 Catherine Fisk and Brian Olney

Catherine Fisk is an OnLabor Senior Contributor. Brian Olney is an Associate Attorney at Hadsell Stormer & Renick. Advocates of weakening public sector unions, both some who have filed briefs in the Friedrichs case and others who support anti-union legislation in Wisconsin and other states, assert that public sector unions contribute to state budget deficits […]

The NLRB is Going All Out to Defend Collective Legal Action for Workers

Jan 7, 2016 Andrew Strom

In a typical month, if the NLRB decides twenty cases, each case will address a different issue. So, it is notable that over the last two months, the NLRB has decided twenty-seven separate cases addressing the same issue – employment policies that prohibit workers from bringing collective legal actions. These decisions highlight the extent to […]

The VW Chattanooga Union Win is Democracy at Work

Dec 9, 2015 Catherine Fisk

The 71 percent majority vote of the skilled maintenance workers at VW’s Chattanooga plant to elect the United Auto Workers is an important test of whether critics of the labor law model of exclusive representation really believe that those workers who want a union should be allowed to have one (as they claim) or whether […]

Wealth Inequality and the Labor Movement: What’s the Connection?

Dec 7, 2015 Jake Rosenfeld

Tuesday’s report from the Institute for Policy Studies exposes an enormous concentration of wealth among America’s elite. Among the shocking findings: The country’s wealthiest 20 people have a combined worth equal to the bottom half of the U.S. population, and the wealthiest 100 households hold as much wealth as the entire African-American population – all […]

Guest Post: If Fair Share Fees are “Tyrannical,” What About Taxes?

Oct 26, 2015 Andrew Strom

Andrew Strom is Associate General Counsel of SEIU Local 32BJ. All of us have had the experience of the government spending our tax dollars to promote ideas we oppose. Most of us have probably not thought that these expenditures violate the First Amendment’s prohibition against “abridging the freedom of speech.” Supreme Court justices across the political […]

The Summit: Voice and Leverage

Oct 13, 2015 Benjamin Sachs

Last week, President Obama convened the Summit on Worker Voice at the White House. It was an impressive event, in part because of how much energy clearly had been dedicated by the highest levels of the administration to a discussion of revitalizing “worker voice.” The President himself spoke not once, but twice. The Vice President, Valerie Jarrett […]

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Zubik and the Ministerial Exception

Why The NLRB Should Allow Graduate Student Bargaining

The NLRB’s Next Play With Student Employees

The DOL is Best Hope for Senate Cafeteria Workers

Public Employee Unions and Pensions

The NLRB is Going All Out to Defend Collective Legal Action for Workers

The VW Chattanooga Union Win is Democracy at Work

Wealth Inequality and the Labor Movement: What’s the Connection?

Guest Post: If Fair Share Fees are “Tyrannical,” What About Taxes?

The Summit: Voice and Leverage