Building on our recent coverage of Harris and Mulhall, Reuters has a good piece discussing the significance of these labor law cases, which the Supreme Court will hear this Term. The Reuters piece highlights our view that “‘[t]hese are cases that go to the heart of the legal regimes that are necessary to enable unionization.'” As we have explained before, the Court made the wrong call in granting cert. in Harris, and Mulhall “could be the most significant labor law case in a generation.”
Los Angeles Times
- Column: How anti-union southern governors may be violating federal law
- Ben Sachs quoted in a column about the anti-union governors' letter and the fragmentation of labor law; John Fry's post referenced on the question of whether state level card-check bans are preempted by the NLRA.
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November 26
Whole Foods workers in Philly file for first-ever union under Amazon; Waffle House sues the NLRB; Amazon workers across the world threaten to strike and protest on Black Friday.
November 25
Charlotte Airport workers go on strike; the NLRB rules that Google is a joint employer; farm industry groups petition President-elect Trump to spare their workers from deportation
November 24
Trump picks Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor Secretary; German Volkswagen workers on the precipice of major strike.
November 22
In today’s news and commentary, nurses in Michigan vote to unionize and a hotel workers strike continues in Las Vegas. Nurses at Corewell Health in Michigan voted to unionize after a year-long campaign. This election resulted in one of the largest union election victories in nearly 20 years, according to the NLRB, with this election […]
November 21
Workers at electric vehicle battery production complex in Kentucky launch campaign to join the UAW; Amazon workers at company’s largest air facility on the West Coast start union drive to join the Teamsters; and medical residents and fellows affiliated with Brown University organize to join CIR/SEIU Healthcare.
November 20
Philadelphia unions plan a joint strike, Greece faces a 24-hour general strike, and University of California unions set strikes for today and tomorrow.