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Guest Post: A Reply on Exclusive Representation and Sweeney v. Pence

Sep 8, 2014 Catherine Fisk

Catherine Fisk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine. This post is part of a series: Heather Whitney’s initial post, James Sherk’s reply, and Ms. Whitney’s response. In the debate between Heather and James over whether right-to-work laws require unions and their members to pay for services for nonpayers, Heather is […]

Guest Post: A Response to James Sherk on the Takings Clause and Exclusive Representation

Sep 8, 2014 Heather Whitney

Heather Whitney is a Lecturer in Law and Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. This is a response to James Sherk’s post; Ms. Whitney’s original post is available here. James’s response to my post misapprehends the current state of the law in at least two ways. First, federal labor law provides unions the […]

Guest Post: On the Takings Clause and Exclusive Representation — A Reply to Heather Whitney

Sep 8, 2014 James Sherk

James Sherk is a Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics at the Heritage Foundation. This is a reply to Heather Whitney’s recent post. Heather Whitney’s recent post on the Takings Clause and Right-to-Work misses a crucial point: Federal law does not require unions to act as an exclusive representative. Thus Right-to-Work laws do not force […]

Guest Post: The Takings Clause and Sweeney v. Pence

Sep 4, 2014 Heather Whitney

Heather Whitney is a Lecturer in Law and Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. She clerked for Chief Judge Wood before starting at Chicago. The views expressed here are her own and do not necessarily represent those of Judge Wood. In an op-ed back in July, Ben and Catherine Fisk argued that the […]

Guest Post: McDonald's, Franchises, and the NLRB

Aug 6, 2014 Catherine Fisk

Catherine Fisk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine. This post is part of series: Professor Fisk’s initial post is here; Professor David Sherwyn’s response is here. The debate over the decision of the NLRB General Counsel to issue a complaint against the McDonald’s corporation as well as some franchisees is hampered […]

Guest Post: What the NLRB's McDonald's Decision Got Wrong

Aug 5, 2014 David Sherwyn

David Sherwyn is a Professor of Law Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. He is also academic director of the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations and a research fellow at the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University’s School of Law. This is a response to Professor Catherine Fisk’s post. […]

Guest Post: Truck Driver Rights and Recent California Rulings

Jul 31, 2014 Jon Zerolnick

Jon Zerolnick is the Research Director at LAANE, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, where he has authored a number of reports concerning port truck drivers. Truck drivers in California’s ports have been fighting for decades for rights most workers take for granted: the right to a minimum wage, the right to proper […]

Guest Post: What it Means that McDonald's is Responsible for its Franchises

Jul 30, 2014 Catherine Fisk

Catherine Fisk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of the award-winning book, “Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930.” The action of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board in determining that unfair labor practice charges against McDonald’s can proceed […]

NLRB General Counsel Finds McDonald's a Joint Employer

Jul 30, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

The Board G.C. has determined that McDonald’s is a joint employer (with its franchises) and thus potentially liable for unfair labor practices. We will have analysis soon.

House Subcommittee Examines Federal Wage and Hour Regulatory Structure

Jul 23, 2014 Emily Cusick

On Wednesday, July 23, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing entitled “Improving the Federal Wage and Hour Regulatory Structure.” The hearing provided the House Education and the Workforce committee members an opportunity to “examine the growth of FLSA-related litigation and current compliance assistance efforts.” The Fair Labor Standards Act sets forth federal wage and hour protections […]

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