Published August 23rd, 2018 - Ryan Wheeler
Responding to the #MeToo movement and the Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems, the California State Senate passed a bill that would prohibit employers from requiring a mandatory arbitration provision or nondisclosure agreement as a condition of empl... More »
Published August 8th, 2018 - Vail Kohnert-Yount
In a hard-fought win for organized labor, Missouri voters repealed a so-called “right-to-work” law enacted last year by Missouri’s Republican state legislature and former Republican governor by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. The New York Times repor... More »
Published July 26th, 2018 - Sejal Singh
On August 7th, Missouri voters will decide the fate of Prop. A — a ballot initiative that could repeal the state’s newly passed “right-to-work” law. Last year, then-Governor Eric Greitens signed Senate Bill 19, a so-called “right-to-work” bill that poses a dir... More »
Published July 3rd, 2018 - Benjamin Sachs
In the grim aftermath of Janus v. AFSCME, discussion has focused on what the decision portends for agency fee agreements in the private sector. Given the cloud of doom that has descended on many of us, it’s not surprising that pessimism abounds. There is... More »
Published April 19th, 2018 - Boyd Garriott
This term, the Supreme Court will decide Janus, where it will determine the future of agency shop agreements in public sector unions. Despite being a public-sector union case, Justice Ginsburg raised a question on many people’s minds at oral argument: “what ha... More »
Published March 9th, 2018 - Maddy Joseph
Trump officially announced new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum yesterday, with industry workers standing on as he signed the proclamation. As many have reported, the tariffs are billed as a measure to protect American manufacturing workers, but the ste... More »
Published February 21st, 2018 - Sophia Z. Lee
Janus v. AFSCME will soon decide the constitutional fate of fair-share fees for public sector unions. These fees support unions’ collective bargaining work on behalf of employees they are legally required to represent but who are not union members. Most progno... More »
Published October 27th, 2017 - Maddy Joseph
Uber faces a new employment discrimination lawsuit brought by three Latina software engineers who allege that the company discriminates against women and people of color in promotions and pay. Uber is the latest in a string of tech companies–from Google... More »
Published October 24th, 2017 - Jake Rosenfeld
Recently the Times chronicled the devastation of the Democratic Party in Iowa, a former swing state that now has a Republican Governor, two Republican Senators, three Republican Representatives (out of four total), and an electorate that voted for Donald Trump... More »
Published October 5th, 2017 - Benjamin Sachs
In light of the Court’s grant of cert. in Janus v. AFSCME, I’m posting my new draft article on the subject. The article, Agency Fees and the First Amendment, 131 Harv. L. Rev. (forthcoming Feb. 2018), makes two related arguments, both of which aim ... More »
Published August 3rd, 2017 - Raj Salhotra
According to the Washington Examiner, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi will vote today on whether or not they should join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. Nearly 4,000 workers will be voting, and the election will be concluded by Friday. While unio... More »
Published August 1st, 2017 - Maddy Finucane
Opponents of Missouri’s embryonic right-to-work law celebrated a victory on Friday, when an appeals court found that the language in their repeal-oriented referendum was adequately clear and fair. Governor Eric Greitens signed the law in February, with August... More »
August 23rd, 2018