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Supreme Court to weigh employer-union organizing deals
Source: Reuters
Supreme Court to weigh employer-union organizing deals
BY AMANDA BECKER
WASHINGTON Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:01am EST
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday that could have a major impact on the U.S. labor movement as it questions whether agreements often made between unions and private-sector employers over unionization campaigns violate an anti-corruption law.
The court is examining deals known as "neutrality agreements" in which employers agree not to campaign against unionization. The agreements have been in use for decades and the case could change how unions go about organizing.
If the justices find the pacts are a "thing of value," prohibiting employers and unions from entering into them, it would be a major blow to organized labor as it struggles to bolster membership, said those familiar with the practice.
"The stakes could not be higher for the union movement," Harvard University Law School Professor Benjamin Sachs said.
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BY AMANDA BECKER
WASHINGTON Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:01am EST
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday that could have a major impact on the U.S. labor movement as it questions whether agreements often made between unions and private-sector employers over unionization campaigns violate an anti-corruption law.
The court is examining deals known as "neutrality agreements" in which employers agree not to campaign against unionization. The agreements have been in use for decades and the case could change how unions go about organizing.
If the justices find the pacts are a "thing of value," prohibiting employers and unions from entering into them, it would be a major blow to organized labor as it struggles to bolster membership, said those familiar with the practice.
"The stakes could not be higher for the union movement," Harvard University Law School Professor Benjamin Sachs said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/13/us-usa-employment-mulhall-idUSBRE9AC06I20131113
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Supreme Court to weigh employer-union organizing deals (Original Post)
Eugene
Nov 2013
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BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)1. No, this is not an activist court!
They just destroy settled law to the ill of the common folk, like me.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)3. yep, cause that's what they're paid to do..
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)2. mmm.. wonder how our big business, free market, corrupt hacks..
known as the "conservative" majority on the Supreme Court will decide this one? Anybody want to guess?