Labor Law

The Stunning Workers’ Victory in New Mexico That You Haven’t Heard About

Leave a Comment / union mobilizing, unions / By max cyril

On March 5, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed H.B. 364, a major overhaul of New Mexico’s system of public sector labor relations. Hailed by the Teamsters as a necessary modernization and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) as a ?“big step” in the fight for public employees, many of the bill’s marquee reforms provide procedural overhauls for New Mexico’s system of …

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New York bill would jail employers for discriminating over immigration status

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

Employers in New York state could face a penalty of up to three months in prison and a $20,000 dollar fine if they make threats regarding a person’s immigration status, under a new bill proposed by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James. Undocumented workers face unique challenges in the workplace when it comes to …

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Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Could Spell a Fresh Hell for Workers’ Rights

Leave a Comment / Supreme Court / By max cyril

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced his nomination of conservative Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, Chief Justice John Roberts, a fellow conservative, will become the ideological and political center of the Supreme Court, and protections for women, minorities, voting rights, civil liberties and …

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Janus Is Here—But Don’t Ring the Death Knell for the Labor Movement

Leave a Comment / Supreme Court / By max cyril

In a major decision that will impact labor for decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has just declared that all public-sector workers who are represented by a union have a Constitutional right to pay the union nothing for the representation. The Court overturned its landmark 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which permitted public-sector …

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Divide and Conquer: Employers’ Attempts to Prohibit Joint Legal Action Will be Tested in Court

Leave a Comment / Forced arbitration / By max cyril

On Monday, October 2, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most consequential labor law cases to come to the Court in a generation, which could fundamentally alter the balance of power between millions of American workers and the people who employ them. So why are so few people paying attention? At first glance, the …

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Trump is about to make America much crueler to unionized workers

Working People Need to Know If We Can Trust Donald Trump’s NLRB Nominees to Protect Our Freedoms

Viewpoint: A Smart Strategy to Defeat ‘Right to Work’

Leave a Comment / Right to Work & At-Will employment / By max cyril

Viewpoint: A Smart Strategy to Defeat ‘Right to Work’ March 17, 2015 / Rand Wilson Without aggressive action, the right-to-work tsunami will sweep more states. “Just Cause for All” campaigns should be part of the strategy. Wisconsin is now the 25th state to adopt a so-called “right-to-work” law, which allows workers to benefit from collective …

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Workplace bullying targets winning unemployment benefits appeals in New York State

Leave a Comment / unemployment, unemployment insurance / By max cyril

Thanks to a developing line of administrative appeal decisions, workers in New York State who resign their jobs due to bullying and employer abuse could still retain eligibility for unemployment benefits. Under New York State labor law, workers who voluntarily resign without good cause are presumptively ineligible to receive unemployment benefits. Most other states follow a …

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