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Janus v AFSCME:

February 24, 2018 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

What the Supreme Court May Strip from Workers The roar of the approaching storm can be both heard and felt in workplaces across the United States. The prospects inherent in a much anticipated – and in many places feared – Supreme Court decision in the case Janus v AFSCME has the political Right giddy. Among […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class prejudice, Classism, Classism in Politics, Classist Corporations, Corporate power, Labor movement, Politics and Class, Workplace classism Tagged With: blaming the victim, labor law, low-wage jobs, privilege, teachers unions, union-bashing

SCOTUS: Public Sector Unions Safe for Now

March 30, 2016 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked in the case of Friedrichs v California Teachers Association (representing 325,000 teachers in 1,000 school districts). The 4-4 vote, for now, leaves undisturbed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which found itself bound by a prior SCOTUS precedent upholding a system […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in Politics, Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: labor law, public sector, public sector unions, Supreme Court, union-bashing, unions

Open Shop Trend Makes Organizing “the Organized” Top Union Priority

August 28, 2014 by Steve Early 1 Comment

For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that “external organizing” — to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights — and “internal organizing,” which involves engaging more […]

Filed Under: Labor movement Tagged With: labor law, open shop, Right to Work

Another Supreme Court decision threatens workers

August 4, 2014 by Michael C. Duff Leave a Comment

If you are like me you may have had trouble keeping up with all the bad news U.S. Supreme Court opinions issued in recent months. I would like to discuss one of those opinions, Noel Canning, because I think it had some real social class dimensions that may not be immediately noticeable. Noel Canning is […]

Filed Under: Classism in Politics, Politics and Class Tagged With: labor law, policy

Beneath the Veneer of Harris v. Quinn

July 17, 2014 by Michael C. Duff 2 Comments

Harris v. Quinn is a recent Supreme Court opinion, featured often on the news, holding that “partial” public employees – home health care providers – should not be “compelled” to join a union or, put in less charged language, to contribute to union representation in their workplace even when a majority of employees has voted […]

Filed Under: Classism in Politics, Labor movement Tagged With: labor law, public services, Right to Work, unions

The Worker Center Boogyman

December 9, 2013 by Michael C. Duff Leave a Comment

Lately the Chamber of Commerce (the Chamber) has been complaining loudly that Worker Centers are a kind of front group for unions.  Worker centers are community-based and community-led organizations that engage in a combination of service, advocacy, and organizing activities to provide support to low-wage workers. The vast majority of the Centers were created primarily […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: labor law, union-bashing, unions, worker centers

The law in our heads

January 2, 2013 by Michael C. Duff 2 Comments

I don’t want to sound like a Paul Simon song, but in my little town I grew up believing in the rule of law. I wanted to work for a unionized company because there, I was told, I would experience justice in the workplace; I would be protected. Well, now that I am a Harvard-educated […]

Filed Under: Labor movement, Workplace classism Tagged With: academia, labor law, working class

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