The Minnesota Law Review is hosting its annual symposium on October 25, 2013, and this year’s topic is “The Future of Organized Labor: Labor Law in the 21st Century.”
The symposium will feature a number of nationally recognized experts in the field of labor law participating as keynote speakers, panelists, and moderators. Craig Becker, general counsel for the AFL-CIO, and G. Roger King, of counsel at Jones Day, will be delivering keynote addresses on the current state of unions and American labor law followed by a moderated discussion.
The symposium will also include three panels composed of labor law professors, practitioners, and union leaders discussing the following topics:
- Unions in the Crosshairs: How It Happened and the Road Ahead for Labor
- International Labor Law: Opportunity, Solution, or Intrusion?
- Achievable Labor Law Reform
For more details and registration information, visit http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/2013/05/2013-minnesota-law-review-symposium/.
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December 7
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December 5
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December 4
Unionized journalists win arbitration concerning AI, Starbucks challenges two NLRB rulings in the Fifth Circuit, and Philadelphia transit workers resume contract negotiations.
December 3
The Trump administration seeks to appeal a federal judge’s order that protects the CBAs of employees within the federal workforce; the U.S. Department of Labor launches an initiative to investigate violations of the H-1B visa program; and a union files a petition to form a bargaining unit for employees at the Met.
December 2
Fourth Circuit rejects broad reading of NLRA’s managerial exception; OPM cancels reduced tuition program for federal employees; Starbucks will pay $39 million for violating New York City’s Fair Workweek law; Mamdani and Sanders join striking baristas outside a Brooklyn Starbucks.