• info@workplacefairness.org
Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube
Donate Now

Supreme Court

The Trump administration has started rolling back the birth control mandate

Leave a Comment / health care, healthcare / By

Federal officials, under orders by President Donald Trump, have drafted a rule to roll back the Obama-era mandate that birth control be included under all employer insurance plans. The final shape of roll back is still uncertain: The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website says that it is reviewing the “interim final rule” to …

The Trump administration has started rolling back the birth control mandate Read More »

How Scalia’s Death Affects That Important Public-Employee Union Case

Leave a Comment / unions / By

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death Saturday, the court’s ideologically conservative 5-4 majority is no more. One big case this affects is Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which the conservative ideological majority on the court was prepared to use to bankrupt public-employee unions. Now they can’t do that. The Friedrichs case …

How Scalia’s Death Affects That Important Public-Employee Union Case Read More »

How the Friedrichs v. Calif. Teachers Association SCOTUS Case Could Actually Be a Boon for Unions

Leave a Comment / unions / By

As unions file their legal briefs in the epic Friedrichs vs. CTA anti-union Supreme Court case, one clever legal scholar argues that Friedrichs is “an unexpected tool for labor.” University of Chicago Teaching Fellow Heather Whitney’s forthcoming paper in the NYU Journal of Law and Liberty makes a compelling case that an adverse decision in Friedrichs would hand unions a first …

How the Friedrichs v. Calif. Teachers Association SCOTUS Case Could Actually Be a Boon for Unions Read More »

3 Blockbuster Supreme Court Cases that Could Spell Catastrophe for Workers and Consumers

Leave a Comment / Class Action / By

Corporate America has been tireless in trying to sharply limit, or simply eliminate, all class action lawsuits. When corporations break the law by doing things such as not paying workers for time they work, paying women less than men, or by violating privacy rights in willful ways, Corporate America knows that workers and consumers can …

3 Blockbuster Supreme Court Cases that Could Spell Catastrophe for Workers and Consumers Read More »

Calm Down: SCOTUS’s ‘Friedrichs’ Case Won’t Mean the End of the American Labor Movement

Leave a Comment / unions / By

While most liberals were celebrating the Supreme Court’s June rulings affirming both marriage equality and Obamacare, many labor leaders were already worrying about next year. They feared that the court might hear a case that many of them saw as potentially delivering a crippling blow to the union movement: Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. And …

Calm Down: SCOTUS’s ‘Friedrichs’ Case Won’t Mean the End of the American Labor Movement Read More »

The Supreme Court Case That Could Decimate American Public Sector Unionism

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By

Last week, an appeal was sent to the U.S. Supreme Court for a case that could prove to be the most damaging case to labor in decades. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association aims to overturn a nearly 40-year precedent which allows the use of “fair share” fees for public sector unions, wherein all union members …

The Supreme Court Case That Could Decimate American Public Sector Unionism Read More »

The Civil Rights Act – looking back, looking ahead

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 guaranteed equal treatment in the workplace, in public facilities, and in public accommodations, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or sex.  Equality was not the norm in 1964.  Remembering where we started may provide hope and inspiration for the next fifty years. This is the first of a two part …

The Civil Rights Act – looking back, looking ahead Read More »

Copyright © 2023 Workplace Fairness, All rights reserved.

Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin Twitter Youtube
Scroll to Top

Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

  • “New York, NY”