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July 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer contraception mandate. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence […]

May 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

A group of Uber and Lyft drivers filed a lawsuit Monday against Governor Cuomo, the New York Department of Labor, and the New York Commissioner of Labor, alleging New York illegally failed to pay standard unemployment benefits to drivers in a timely manner during the coronavirus pandemic. The suit claims that the NYDOL treats app-based […]

May 14, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Department of Labor announced this morning that 2.9 million more Americans filed for unemployment in the past week, raising the nation’s record-shattering unemployment rate beyond 14.7%. Among the 36.5 million people now unemployed are some 600,000 clean energy workers, whose employment has been especially affected due to comparative economic fragility of many clean-energy start-ups […]

March 4, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Voters took to the polls in fourteen states for Super Tuesday yesterday. As The New York Times reports, former Vice President Joe Biden won big: winning in states across the South and in several states where he did not seriously campaign. Senator Bernie Sanders won prized delegates in California, along with Colorado, Utah, and his […]

January 31, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

American Airlines has reached a tentative contract with the unions that represent the company’s mechanics and fleet service workers. Negotiations over a contract had been going on for more than four years. The negotiations were characterized by periodic bouts of tension, and included a work slowdown that led to a court battle—which the company eventually […]

December 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Fiat Chrysler and UAW have reached a tentative deal on a new labor contract. Fiat Chrysler has agreed to add $4.5 billion in investments, which should provide 7,900 jobs over the course of four years. Local union leaders will meet Wednesday to decide whether to recommend Fiat Chrysler’s proposal to the membership. While their prior […]

November 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Tuesday, the Seventh Circuit held that government employees who paid agency fees to public sector unions cannot recover fees collected prior to the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. The plaintiff in Tuesday’s case was Mark Janus himself. Writing for a three-judge panel, Chief Judge Diane Wood explained that the good-faith defense […]

September 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

The United Auto Workers strike against General Motors continued this weekend (please see our previous coverage). Senator Elizabeth Warren joined the picket line on Sunday at an assembly plant in Detroit. Also on Sunday, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to striking General Motors workers at a Fairfax plant. Senator Bernie Sanders plans to visit […]

September 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Presidential candidate and Former Vice President Joe Biden is hearing frustrations from a key union in his backyard: the AFL-CIO’s Philadelphia branch. According to NPR, the AFL-CIO is holding a forum in mid-September, and seven presidential candidates have committed to attend—but not Biden. “He always calls himself a Pennsylvanian at heart. . . . But […]

April 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The Eighth Circuit stayed further consideration of Horton v. Midwest Geriatric Management, LLC following the Supreme Court’s decision to take up Bostock and Zarda. Horton, like the aforementioned cases, concerns whether Title VII’s bar against discrimination because of sex extends to discrimination because of sexual orientation. Read Adrienne’s earlier summary of oral argument in Horton […]

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