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February 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Child care workers in California have called for a union election. The election is part of a sixteen-year organizing effort by Child Care Providers United, a joint initiative from the SEIU and AFSCME. Workers who provide child care services to California families on government subsidy were granted collective bargaining rights via state legislation introduced late […]

Ninth Circuit Joins Eighth and Rejects Challenge to Exclusive Representation

Feb 28, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

In an opinion released Tuesday, the ninth circuit has rejected a First Amendment challenge to exclusive representation. As Jared reports, the ninth circuit joins the eighth circuit in affirming the constitutional validity of exclusive representation, even in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Janus decision. No circuit court has held to the contrary, and thus no circuit […]

December 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report: unemployment remains at 3.7% for the third month, and the U.S. added 155,000 nonfarm jobs. Reactions are mixed; while the report is “weaker than expected,” it is also a sign of an expansive and overall healthy economy, note commentators in the New York […]

April 16, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Teachers’ union leaders in Oklahoma have ended their nine-day teachers’ strike which began on April 2nd. In anticipation of the strike, state lawmakers had passed a $6,000 pay raise for Oklahoma teachers, the largest in the state’s history. In addition to pay raises, the teachers also called for increased funding for their classrooms, and over […]

April 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation yesterday that is aimed at protecting public workers’ rights in advance of the Supreme Court’s potentially adverse ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31. The new law allows unions to deny full benefits to workers that opt out and makes it easier for unions to receive dues. “Too […]

February 23, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

In advance of Monday’s oral argument in Janus, Bloomberg and the New York Times consider what might become of public sector unions if Abood is overruled. In These Times has a long feature on the advocacy groups who are funding not only Janus but also other efforts to undermine public sector unions. Key groups include the National Right to Work Foundation, whose legal fund represents […]

Janus Amicus: Economists & Law Professors

Jan 30, 2018 Maddy Joseph

A group of over two dozen economists and law and economics professors filed an amicus in Janus in support of the respondents. The brief argues that “decades if not centuries of economic theory and empirical evidence” establish that many who pay agency fees are not union objectors but free riders. The brief draws first on Mancur Olson’s […]

Janus Amicus: Labor & Employment Law Professors

Jan 29, 2018 Maddy Joseph

Several leading professors of labor and employment law have filed an amicus brief in support of the respondents in Janus. The brief, authored by Samuel Estreicher, was filed by Cynthia Estlund, Estreicher, Julius Getman, William Gould, Michael Harper, and Theodore St. Antoine. The brief makes a functional argument for public sector collective bargaining. Employees expect, and […]

January 24, 2018
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

Slate’s editorial staff voted 45-7 to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East, the company’s organizing committee announced, reports Splinter. Slate’s bargaining unit includes all but six senior newsroom employees and six podcast staffers. It does not count employees at Panoply, a podcast network that is part of the Slate Group but produces programs […]

Janus Amicus: Ben Sachs

Jan 22, 2018 Maddy Joseph

An amicus filed on Friday in Janus and based on Ben’s new article Agency Fees and the First Amendment, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1046 urges the Court to reject Janus’s challenge on the ground that it does not raise a valid First Amendment claim. The amicus argues that mandatory agency fees should be treated not as compelled employee […]

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February 6, 2020

Ninth Circuit Joins Eighth and Rejects Challenge to Exclusive Representation

December 7, 2018

April 16, 2018

April 13, 2018

February 23, 2018

Janus Amicus: Economists & Law Professors

Janus Amicus: Labor & Employment Law Professors

January 24, 2018

Janus Amicus: Ben Sachs