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SEIU
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Management Memo
Alliance of Aggressive Unions (CNA and NUHW) Formed to Target Hospitals
On January 3, 2013, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), two of the healthcare industry's most aggressive unions, announced a new…
Employer Labor Relations
Not So Fast Food: Labor’s Latest Recipe for Organizing
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Bradford L. Livingston Earlier this week, a community organizing group called New York Communities for Change, with significant assistance from other community organizations and organized labor, announced a multi-million…
Employer Labor Relations
Supreme Court Solicits The Federal Government’s View On Care Workers’ Challenge To Union Fees
By Seyfarth Shaw, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By Ashley S. Kircher The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday invited the Solicitor General to file an amicus brief expressing the government’s views on whether a state can compel personal care…
Employment & Labor
U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Non-Union Public Employees Must “Affirmatively Consent” To Pay Dues Intended For Political Purposes
By Laura J. Maechtlen and Robb D. McFadden Key workplace issues often arise in the class action context. Fresh on the heels of an historic defeat in the State of Wisconsin’s…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Takes on Union Assessment Rules in Knox
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The usual First Amendment rule for public-sector union fee assessments for non-members is that unions have to provide notice and an opportunity to opt out of those portions of the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Union Special Assessment Procedure Violates First Amendment
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
A divided Supreme Court today ruled in Knox v. SEIU that a union must provide notice and opt-in for a proposed special assessment in a public-sector agency shop. We covered the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Considers Opt-Out Options for Union Assessment
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in Knox v. SEIU, the case testing whether a union had to issue a special opt-out notice to nonmembers when it increased its…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Sodexo Settles RICO Action Against SEIU
Hunton & Williams client Sodexo Inc. announced last week that it has settled its civil RICO lawsuit against the Service Employees International Union, marking the end of the SEIU's contentious…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LOS ANGELES JANITORS FIGHT FOR THEIR JOBS
David Bacon's TruthOut Photoessay offers insights on the protest of more than 1400 Los Angeles janitors, members of United Service Workers West SEIU, of the firing of immigrant workers by Able…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Court Permits RICO Suit Against SEIU
The Blog of Legal Times reports today that a Virginia federal judge has just refused to dismiss a RICO suit brought by Sodexo against the SEIU for the union's "corporate…