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New Hampshire Republicans Are Using Covid to Ram Through Right-to-Work Legislation

Leave a Comment / Right to Work, unions / By max cyril

As fellow Democrats reveled in Donald Trump’s presidential defeat, New Hampshire State Rep. Doug Ley (also president of the American Federation of Teachers-New Hampshire) watched the election results with unease. Republicans captured both chambers of the General Court of New Hampshire, and Republican Gov. Chris Sununu handily won a third term. In New Hampshire, a unified right-wing …

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The Union Bond

Leave a Comment / Right to Work, unions / By max cyril

Dave Dell Isola, the son and grandson of union members, grew up grateful for the family-sustaining wages and benefits that organized labor won for working people. But he never fully grasped the might of solidarity until he and his wife, Barbara, and their two sons lost everything in an apartment fire. Dell Isola’s brothers and …

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New Koch Brothers-Funded Super PAC Looks to Capitalize on Janus Decision Ahead of the Election

Public workers organize after Supreme Court attacked their unions

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

The Supreme Court took a big swing at public worker unions in its Janus decision, which allows workers to demand the benefits of unions without contributing to the costs, essentially forcing their coworkers who are union members to subsidize them. But many unions are rising to the challenge. In Connecticut at least, defections amount to a tiny trickle …

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In Crosshairs of Right-to-Work, Kentucky Bourbon Makers Go On Strike

Leave a Comment / Right to Work / By max cyril

More than 50 workers in Kentucky are on strike due to a contract dispute with Four Roses, a bourbon maker with a distillery in Lawrenceburg and a bottling plant in Cox’s Creek. Workers say Four Roses is attempting to adopt a two-tier system that would reduce the benefits for new employees of the company. Members of …

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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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Wisconsin bill would ban cities from passing worker-friendly laws

Leave a Comment / State Government / By max cyril

Wisconsin is considering a bill that would prevent local governments from enacting worker-friendly ordinances relating to overtime, discrimination, benefits, and wages. On Wednesday, the Senate held a public hearing on the GOP-backed bill. The bill, Senate Bill 634, would prevent local municipalities in Wisconsin from increasing the minimum wage, stop enforcement of licensing regulations stricter than state standards, …

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How Business Unionism Got Us to Janus

Leave a Comment / AFSCME, Public Workers, unions / By max cyril

In September, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus vs. AFSCME, a case that has the potential to undermine public sector unions by curtailing unions’ right to charge non-members an “agency fee.” This fee covers the protection and services the union is obligated to provide all employees in the bargaining unit. Many labor leaders and …

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SCOTUS Is on the Verge of Decimating Public-Sector Unions—But Workers Can Still Fight Back

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

On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus vs. AFSCME, the case that will likely turn the entire public sector labor movement into a “right-to-work” zone. Like a lazy Hollywood remake, the case has all the big money behind it that last year’s Friedrichs v. CTA did, with none of the creativity. In Friedrichs, the plaintiffs argued that …

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Supreme Court takes up case that will devastate public sector unions