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Big Changes for Michigan Employers: Right-to-Work Repeal and Prevailing Wage Reinstatement

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On Friday, March 24, 2023, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill that repeals Michigan’s Right-to-Work law and reinstates prevailing wages for construction projects. In effect since 2013, Michigan’s...more

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West Virginia Judge Rules Private Sector Unions are Entitled to Collect Dues, Fees, and Assessments From Non-Union Employees

In a ruling entered late on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, Kanawha County, West Virginia, Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey issued a long-awaited ruling in the litigation challenging the constitutionality of West Virginia’s...more

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Missouri Voters Reject Right-to-Work

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On Tuesday, August 7, 2018, voters in Missouri’s primary election largely voted against becoming the 28th state in the country to adopt a right-to-work initiative. Officially known as Proposition A, the ballot asked voters if...more

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Kentucky’s Right-To-Work Law Survives Challenge

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Kentucky’s right-to-work law has survived a challenge by the AFL-CIO and Teamsters union. The Kentucky legislation passed in the first week of the 2017 legislative session, making the Bluegrass State the 27th to adopt...more

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Union Membership Plummets In Most Right-To-Work States

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As anticipated, the nationwide trend of enacting “right-to-work” (RTW) legislation has continued to grow – in the past few years alone, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Kentucky have joined the growing list of...more

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West Virginia Court Unblocks Right To Work Law

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West Virginia’s right to work law will be enforceable beginning October 15, 2017. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has dismissed a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking...more

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Missouri is Now a Right-to-Work State

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On February 6, 2017, Missouri became the 28th state to enact a right-to-work law.  The bill, passed by the Show Me State’s Republican-controlled state legislature, was signed into law by newly-elected Governor Eric Greitens. ...more

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Federal Appeals Court Rules Counties May Enact Right To Work Laws

The term “right to work state” is fairly well known. After all, 25 of the United States are “right to work states,” states which have enacted laws prohibiting compulsory unionism as part of a collective bargaining agreement....more

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As Expected, the NLRB Eliminates the Employer's Right to Terminate Dues Checkoff Upon Expiration of a CBA

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On August 27, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board, in Lincoln Lutheran of Racine, 362 NLRB No. 188, overturned 53 years of precedent, holding that, like most other terms and conditions of employment, an employer’s...more

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Supreme Court Invalidates Union Fee Requirements Imposed on Homecare Employees

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On June 30, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Illinois law that required homecare providers for Medicaid recipients to pay fees to a union. In Harris v. Quinn, the Court held that compulsory union agency fees imposed on...more

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Supreme Court Issues Decision In Harris V.Quinn: Abood Survives, But For How Long?

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On Monday, the United States Supreme Court issued its anxiously anticipated decision in Harris v. Quinn, a case brought by Illinois home health aides challenging the requirement in a collective bargaining agreement that they...more

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Agency Fees Can’t Be Required for Illinois Rehab Personal Assistants, SCOTUS Rules

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The State of Illinois cannot require Rehabilitation Program “personal assistants” (PAs) who decide not to join a union, to pay compulsory union dues, commonly known as “agency fees,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Harris v....more

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Radical Shift Coming In Public Sector Agency Fees

On Monday, the Supreme Court took a swipe at public sector compulsory unionism. In doing so, the Court took a slice out of decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence and suggested a future re-thinking of agency fees in the public...more

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Supreme Court Rejects Labor’s Mandatory Dues Collection Initiative in Favor of Workers’ First Amendment Rights

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a public-employee union from collecting an agency fee from home-care workers who do not want to join or...more

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Supreme Court Decides Harris v. Quinn

On June 30, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Harris v. Quinn, No. 11-681, holding that the First Amendment does not permit a state to compel public employees to subsidize speech on matters of public concern by a union...more

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Two Significant Decisions Affecting Employers Issued the Final Day of the U.S. Supreme Court Session

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On the last day of its 2013-2014 session, the U.S. Supreme Court held today that (1) for-profit companies are protected as "persons" under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) and (2) that the...more

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Union "Fair Share" Deductions For Public Sector Employees

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Today, in a 5 to 4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to extend its previous holdings regarding “fair-share” fees (fees that an employee who refuses to join a union is required to pay in lieu of union dues) to...more

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United States Supreme Court Strikes Down Illinois Regulatory Framework Requiring Personal Assistants for Medicaid Recipients to...

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In its much anticipated decision in Harris v. Quinn, 573 U.S. __ (2014), the Supreme Court of the United States in a five to four ruling struck down an Illinois regulatory framework that required personal assistants (PAs) for...more

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Employment And Labor Law Alert - It's Official: Michigan's "Right-To-Work" Law Takes Effect

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On March 28, 2013, Michigan's "right-to-work" law, the Workplace Fairness and Equity Act, went into effect. The law prohibits any requirement that an employee pay union dues or join a union as a condition of employment. The...more

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Indiana’s Right-to-Work Statute Survives First Challenge While Court Clarifies Statutory Ambiguities

On February 1, 2012, Indiana became the 23rd “right-to-work” (RTW) state. Since that date, unions have filed two lawsuits in Indiana federal courts hoping to overturn the law on different grounds. One of those lawsuits,...more

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