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Strikes
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Labor & Employment Report
No, You Can’t Fire Employees for Threatening to Strike!
With less than three months until the 2024 presidential election, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union filed unfair labor practice charges against the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump…
Global Workplace Insider
Principles of common purpose doctrine for violence during strike action
By Heidi Davis
In a January 2024 judgment the Labour Court reaffirmed the principles pertaining to the doctrine of common purpose in relation to violent acts committed by groups of employees during strike…
Labor Relations Update
The Honeymoon is Over: Strikes on the Rise…Even Before A First Contract
By Joshua Fox, Yonatan Grossman-Boder, Chad Thornton
While extensive high-profile strike activity was heavily reported throughout 2023, it was – striking– to analyze the hard data regarding 2023 strike activity in Bloomberg’s annual report that was just…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
Strikes, NLRB Decisions Dominate Labor Relations in 2023
By Anne Hall
During the 2023 federal fiscal year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) received a three percent increase in union petitions over the previous fiscal year and a ten percent increase…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Women in Iceland Go on Strike Against Gender Inequality
By Tracy Thomas
NYT, Women in Iceland Go on Strike Against Gender InequalityTens of thousands of women and nonbinary people in Iceland were expected to join a one-day strike on Tuesday, which organizers…
ContractsProf Blog
The SAG-AFTRA Strike
We wrote last week about the auto workers strike. We have been remiss in not having covered the strike of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and…
Labor & Employment Insights
Labor Forecast Following a Summer of Strikes
For many, this has been a summer of strikes. Beyond the high-profile, ongoing strike of Hollywood writers and actors, union actions have secured outcomes like substantial pay increases for UPS…
Labor & Employment Report
Are Employers Supposed to Protect Striking Employees?
By Fiona W. Ong, Gary L. Simpler
As most of us know, Hollywood is striking (or more specifically, the members of the writers' and actors' unions). Some of you may have seen media reports, like this CNN…
Employer Law Report
Shot through the heart: Did SCOTUS give strikes a bad name?
*Special thanks to Porter Wright summer law clerk, Diego De La Vega, for his assistance with this post. On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
Supreme Court Allows Employers to Sue Unions for Strike Damage
Last week, in an 8-1 decision in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Int’l Bhd. of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, the Supreme Court ruled that employers can bring actions against unions…