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When Janus Backfires: A Test Case In Labor Solidarity After Fair Share

In the aftermath of this summer’s Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision attacking public-sector unions, the University of Illinois at Chicago is rapidly becoming a bellwether for how those unions might sink or swim in a world without fair share. UIC prides itself on being one of the most diverse college campuses in the country and one of the most …

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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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Women, Black Workers Hard Hit by Attacks on Public Employees

Leave a Comment / discrimination, layoffs, women's issues / By max cyril

The improved jobs figures out last Friday obscured the ongoing decline in public-sector jobs. As the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics noted when releasing the March unemployment data: Employment in local government continued to trend down over the month. Local government has lost 416,000 jobs since an employment peak in September 2008. The loss of …

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public sector workers

When Janus Backfires: A Test Case In Labor Solidarity After Fair Share

Women, Black Workers Hard Hit by Attacks on Public Employees

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