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December 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

NLRB GC: Student-athletes are employees under NLRA

January 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Babb v. Wilkie. The question before the Court was whether federal workers alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must show that the adverse action would not have happened “but for” their age, or whether the government can be held liable if age […]

May 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the NLRB ruled against the UAW in its bid for a new election to represent both skilled production and maintenance employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In December 2015, the Board certified the UAW as the representative of only the maintenance employees following an election victory for that unit after the union’s […]

November 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

After years of refusing to recognize its graduate student union in contravention of federal labor law, Columbia University has finally agreed to bargain with the union in the coming months, its president and provost announced Monday afternoon. Columbia University spent the past two years resisting a landmark NLRB decision from 2016 holding that its graduate assistants […]

April 24, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

“Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class” was the front page headline of the New York Times yesterday. The Times reported that the “steady erosion of the public sector” has contributed to the decline of the middle class in recent decades. Severe budget cuts have reduced government jobs such that state and […]

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