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Florida Teachers Union Fails to Upend Law on Dues and Recertification Requirements for Public-Sector Unions

On July 24, 2024, Judge Mark Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida dealt Florida teachers unions a critical blow in their attempt to overturn Senate Bill (SB) 256 regarding public-sector union...more

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[Webinar] 2024 Labor & Employment Law Virtual Update - September 18th, 8:30 am - 11:00 am ET

It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more

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First Challenges to Florida’s 2023 Public-Sector Union Law Fizzle as New Requirements Take Effect

Public-sector employers in Florida will want to make certain they are in compliance with new restrictions on non-public safety unions (i.e., unions representing public-sector employees other than police officers,...more

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Michigan Governor Signs Into Law Two Landmark Bills Repealing Right-to-Work Language

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On March 24, 2023, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law two significant pieces of legislation amending Michigan labor laws: Public Act (“PA”) 9 (2023), and its private sector equivalent, PA 8 (2023). Together, both...more

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Virginia Public Employers Grapple with Still-New Collective Bargaining Authority

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While various public employer entities at all levels of government in most of the United States have had some history and experience with public sector collective bargaining, Virginia public employers have only been empowered...more

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Unionization in SC by the Numbers

As covered in a recent post, employees at a Greenville Starbucks location became the first Starbucks employees in South Carolina to vote to unionize. Since then, employees at two other South Carolina stores in Anderson and...more

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Beltway Buzz - September 2021 #2

Administration to Mandate Vaccines for Federal and Private-Sector Employees. President Joe Biden this week dramatically ramped up his administration’s efforts to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates across the country....more

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Frequently Asked Questions about Collective Bargaining for Virginia Local Governments

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For the first time in nearly fifty years, certain public sector employees in the Commonwealth of Virginia will have an opportunity to pursue collective bargaining agreements with their employers. Although public employees in...more

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New Virginia Public Sector Bargaining Law About To Take Effect

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Local government employees in the Commonwealth of Virginia will soon become eligible to enjoy collective bargaining rights for the first time, come May 1, 2021. On that date, a law passed in 2020 will take effect. The law...more

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Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the Time of COVID-19

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This Alert is intended to provide guidance for Connecticut municipal employers, including boards of education, that are now being asked by various unions, to enter into mid-term negotiations to produce a Memorandum of...more

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rejects Nonunion Employees’ Challenge to Unions’ Exclusive Representation of Unit Employees...

In Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466 (June 27, 2018), the Supreme Court of the United States significantly expanded the rights of nonunion public employees by...more

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NLRB Says Non-Union Member Dues Cannot be Used for Lobbying Purposes

In its 1988 Beck decision, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that non-union members who were part of a collective bargaining unit could not be assessed dues for purposes other than collective bargaining or other matters...more

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After The Levee Breaks: How Will Unions Respond To A Post-Janus World

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On the final day of the Supreme Court’s just-completed term, it issued its long-awaited decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, changing the labor law landscape as we know it. The case involved the compulsory “fair share”...more

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The Final Chapter: The Supreme Court Overrules Abood In Janus V. AFSCME And Changes The Face Of Public Sector Labor Relations

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On June 27, 2018, the United States Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking decision in Janus v. AFSCME eliminating the public sector fair share requirement and thus changing the face of public sector labor. The Janus case,...more

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From "Fair Share" to Simply "Unfair" for New York Public Employees

Mark Janus, an Illinois child welfare worker, decided not to join the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees -- the union that represents his public sector co-workers. Under Illinois law, however, Janus...more

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Your Comprehensive Guide to 2018 Proposed California Legislation

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February 16 was the deadline to introduce new bills in the California Legislature. By that date, nearly 2,200 bills were introduced. While that may seem like a staggering amount of legislative proposals (especially for a...more

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An early Halloween trick for Connecticut's public-sector labor unions: Will Janus V. AFSCME, Co. 31 be the end of the agency shop?

Did Halloween come early this year? Well it just may have for Connecticut’s public-sector unions. On September 28th, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and...more

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Supreme Court To Revisit Public Sector Union Fees

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The U.S. Supreme Court will again take up the question of whether making public sector employees pay fees to unions violates their First Amendment rights. On September 28, 2017, the Court said it will review a 7th Circuit...more

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Another Attempt to Control Rising Pension Costs in Pennsylvania Thwarted

In City of Allentown, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the City to implement an interest arbitration award which contained (among modifications to wages, sick leave, vacation, pension and overtime) a minimum staffing...more

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The Appropriate Punishment for Actual and Perceived Threats in the Workplace-Take Two; the Appellate Court (Sensibly) Speaks

Last year, I wrote about an unsuccessful attempt to vacate a puzzling arbitration award that overturned the termination of a school custodian who made threats of violence. In a decision that was officially issued on October...more

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Be Aware of Public Employees Disciplinary Proceedings Protections: Loudermill, Wiengarten and Garrity

This post is primarily for public sector employers such as state agencies, municipalities and districts. By virtue of being employed by the government and quite likely represented by a labor union, public sector employees in...more

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Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Public Section Union “Fair Share Fees”

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On June 30th, the United State Supreme Court granted certiorari in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, and will consider whether public sector agency shop arrangements, also known as “fair share” contractual...more

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