July 3rd 2022
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For the third time since 2017, Massachusetts legislators have quietly suppressed a bill that would repeal Section 9A of Chapter 150E of the General Laws. Section 9A prohibits public employees like teachers from engaging in or encouraging “any strike, work stoppage,...
After the Supreme Court announced in Janus that the First Amendment prohibits mandatory agency fees in the public sector, plaintiffs supported by right-to-work groups flooded the courts with related claims. At the time, we feared that these plaintiffs, aided...
Yesterday, the White House announced that President Biden plans to issue an executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to restrict businesses’ use of employee non-compete agreements. So-called “non-competes”, which ban or restrict workers from...
The Supreme Court has rejected Jade Thompson's appeal claiming she has a First Amendment right not to be represented by a union. The appeal argued that the Court should overturn Minnesota State Board v. Knight to weaken public sector unions' powers derived from...
On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court, in the case of Missouri National Education Association v. Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, invalidated House Bill 1413, a Missouri state law signed by former-Governor Eric Greitens (R) in 2018. The law,...
President Biden is set to sign an executive order this morning bolstering the federal government’s “Buy American” policy. While order’s full text had not yet been released at the time of this post, CNN reported that its key provisions included increasing the...
Another 860,000 Americans filed for unemployment this week. The total number of filings now stands at 12.628 million, slightly down from last week's 13.385 active claims. As the Center for American Progress reports, about 12 million of the roughly 50 million...
On Friday, Oregon became the first state to offer 100% wage replacement for minimum-wage workers. The state will provide 12 weeks paid time off to new parents, survivors of domestic violence, and those who need to care for a family member, significant other, or any...
This year, public sector employees in blue states have organized to expand their collective bargaining right—scoring significant legislative gains in spite of the Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision. The Intercept reports that more than 22,000 public sector workers...
AT&T workers -- represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) -- rallied in Atlanta for a fair contract on Saturday. Around 20,000 AT&T employees in nine Southeastern states are covered by the same contract, which expired over the weekend. In...
On Saturday, several Democratic presidential candidates headed to Las Vegas for a forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The candidates laid out their plans for the economy and labor law reform in front of an audience of...
Wayfair employees are walking out today to protest the furniture company’s contacts with the contractors running child internment camps on the border. Wayfair workers learned that the company placed a $200,000 furniture order with BCFS, a federal contractor that...