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Adjunct Unionization

Jan 22, 2014 Nikolas Bowie

Full-time, tenured university professors are starting to become a thing of the past — and not just in history departments. On Monday, the New York Times and NBC News published the latest in several recent articles on the rise of part-time and non-tenure-track professors, who now compose the vast majority of university faculty in the […]

Reuters on Harris v. Quinn Argument

Jan 21, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

Amanda Becker at Reuters has a careful and good review of today’s argument in Harris v. Quinn. She concludes: The U.S. Supreme Court seemed unlikely on Tuesday to embrace a sweeping argument advanced by a group of Illinois state employees that paying mandatory union dues violates their free-speech rights. Backed by the anti-union National Right […]

Oral Argument in Harris v. Quinn: Justice Scalia Siding with the Union?

Jan 21, 2014 Jack Goldsmith

Here is the quickie transcript of the oral argument this morning in Harris v. Quinn. Perhaps the most important takeaway from argument is that Justice Scalia appeared to believe that the First Amendment is not implicated when public employee unions bargain over employment conditions, and thus seemed disinclined to overrule Abood (even though he joined Knox, which stated in dicta […]

Harris v. Quinn Oral Arguments Today: Everything You Need to Know

Jan 21, 2014 Jordan M. Grossman

The Supreme Court hears arguments in Harris v. Quinn today, potentially one of the most important labor cases in years. We have temporarily placed all of our Harris-related posts over the last several months at the top of the page to provide readers with easy access to On Labor’s extensive analysis of this critical case.

Harris v. Quinn: The Context of First Amendment Claims

Jan 20, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

In its First Amendment jurisprudence, the Supreme Court has long taken the view that the nature of the relationship between government and citizens varies across contexts. And the Court has repeatedly held that as the nature of this relationship varies so does the strength of the First Amendment’s protections for individual speech and expression. When […]

Is Abood in Trouble?

Jan 19, 2014 Jack Goldsmith

That question is the title of Lyle Denniston’s preview of Harris v. Quinn at SCOTUSblog. After reviewing the history of the case, Denniston explains how it “has mushroomed, since the Court granted it, into a major test of the continuing validity of the Abood precedent.” (Abood held that agency shop arrangements in the public sector are consistent […]

Petitioners' Reply Brief in Harris v. Quinn

Jan 18, 2014 Jack Goldsmith

It can be found here. Oral argument is Tuesday.

Walmart to Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program

Jan 17, 2014 Greg Baltz

On Thursday afternoon, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Walmart issued a joint press release announcing that Walmart had signed on to the Fair Food Program. The Fair Food Program’s goal is to improve the wages and working conditions of immigrant farm workers who pick tomatoes sold to retailers and restaurants. The Fair Food Program […]

Evaluating the War On Poverty On Its 50th Anniversary: Why How We Measure Matters So Much

Jan 16, 2014 Jordan M. Grossman

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America” in the 1964 State of the Union address. In the decades since, some have questioned whether these efforts made any real progress. As President Reagan famously proclaimed in 1987, “we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.” In fact, just […]

House Labor Committee Members Raise Concerns about OSHA Intrusion into Family Farms

Jan 15, 2014 Emily Cusick

Yesterday, the House Education and Workforce Committee members raised concerns that OSHA has been intruding into family farms. In a letter to OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels, the committee requested documents surrounding guidance that unilaterally extends OSHA jurisdiction over farms with 10 or fewer employees. The Committee members note in their letter: “Now, without any […]

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