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Reopening 'Yeshiva'?

Inside Higher Ed -
WASHINGTON -- A divided National Labor Relations Board has requested that legal briefs be filed on whether faculty members at private colleges should be considered employees eligible for collective bargaining. While the board's action is just one step ...

How Did Wisconsin Become the Most Politically Divisive Place in America?

New York Times -
The most bitter of these fights began in early February last year, when Walker proposed eliminating virtually all collective-bargaining rights for a vast majority of the state's public-employee unions. Around the time that Walker announced the measure, ...

Wisconsin Top Court Fires Judicial Oversight Panel Chief

BusinessWeek -
By Andrew Harris and Marie Rohde on May 11, 2012 Wisconsin's Supreme Court declined to reappoint the head of an oversight panel that charged a court member with violating the state's judicial code of ethics, according to a letter signed by judges who ...

Harper Government Should Stay Out of Labor Negotiations

Care2.com (blog) -
Collective bargaining is protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a right that was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 2007. The court ruled “That the grounds advanced in the earlier decisions for the exclusion of collective bargaining ...

Perspective: What counts as Catholic?

St. Augustine Record -
When the Supreme Court first considered the issue of aid to parochial schools in the 1947 case Everson vs. Board of Education, it invoked separation as a limiting principle.

Wisconsin's labour battle may have nation-wide repercussions

Globe and Mail -
After winning office in 2010, the Tea Party-backed governor began a frontal assault on the state's public-sector unions, stripping them of most of their collective-bargaining rights and sapping their ability to raise money. For a while it looked like ...

Greenback to the wall

Buenos Aires Herald -
More strikes were called off after Labour Ministry-sponsored talks were held on Monday and a temporary pay agreement was reached, ahead of formal collective wage bargaining scheduled to open in August. A Buenos Aires City government official attended ...

John Dietz: Don't confuse recall with impeachment

Wisconsin State Journal -
The mere fact that the Legislature, governorship and state Supreme Court are of the same political persuasion does not create an overreach.

Comptroller Dealt Setback In Wage Ruling

Wall Street Journal -
In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department, determined that Mr. Liu's method for setting the prevailing wage for movers was "arbitrary, capricious and lacked a rational basis.

St. Louis Police Leadership Organization files amendment to lawsuit against ...

KSDK -
The amended lawsuit challenges the Board's directive because of a 2007 Missouri Supreme Court decision that says all employees have a right to collective bargaining. When contacted by NewsChannel 5, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department ...

BC's Education minister welcomes LRB ruling, hopes for mediation with teachers

CKNW News Talk 980 -
... striking and limit their collective bargaining rights. In 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the government had violated the Canadian Charter by imposing legislative restrictions on the rights of health workers to bargain collectively.

GUEST COMMENTARY: On Memorial Day, don't forget unions, middle class

nwitimes.com -
Right-to-work states with crippled collective bargaining and no regulations within. DREAM Act just a dream with no awakening.

Labour Relations Act Might Be Amended

AllAfrica.com -
A case that is currently before the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) concerning notice requirements before a strike will have implications for labour legislation amendments, specifically the proposed amendment of section 64 of the Labour Relations Act ...

Senate panel approves arbitration settlement cap process

Towanda Daily Review -
The Appropriations Committee approved legislation that addresses an issue raised when the state Supreme Court ruled last year that Scranton must pay arbitration awards costing millions of dollars to city police and firefighters.

Remap reform

Toledo Blade -
Now it has enlisted the labor-backed coalition that led last year's successful campaign to repeal a Republican law that would have gutted collective bargaining for public employees. We Are Ohio is putting its 500000-name email list and 100000-plus ...

Gov. Scott Walker in 'smoking gun' video

MinnPost.com -
Scott Walker describing a 'divide and conquer' strategy for going after the state's public employee unions that would begin with going after their collective bargaining rights, undermining his long-held claim that his divisive union rights law was ...

Ex-Saint: Players will fight suspensions to Supreme Court

USA TODAY -
The collective bargaining agreement signed after last summer's lockout essentially makes Goodell judge and jury for matters pertaining to the integrity of the game.

Gregoire pushes education funding to center of debate

The Spokesman Review (blog) -
The state Supreme Court ruled early this year that the state hasn't met its obligation to adequately fund education programs.

Food bank wins in rail spat

North Shore News -
By Jane Seyd, North Shore News May 16, 2012 A BC Supreme Court judge has ordered the Teamsters Union local 31 to pay $25000 to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank as punishment for ignoring a court order during a labour dispute in North Vancouver last year ...

Education group submits petition for exclusive representation

Columbia Missourian -
Belcher and Baumstark said policy HH comes in response to a 2007 Missouri Supreme Court decision that made collective bargaining legal for teachers and other public employees. Old labor precedents set in the 1940s did not include teachers and applied ...
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