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Communications Workers of America v. Beck, 487 U.S. 735 (1988), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that, in a union security agreement, unions are authorized by statute to collect from non-members only those fees and dues necessary to perform its duties as a collective bargaining representative. [1]
The American Secular Union published over a dozen pamphlets on topics regarding separation of church and state between 1886 and 1928. [5] Following Ingersoll's death in 1899 various leadership changes occurred. The organization withered around 1919. [1]
It would have reduced benefits for upper-income workers while raising them for those with lifetime earnings averaging less than $11,000 a year. Republicans rejected the tax increases and Democrats rejected benefit cuts. A powerful network of elderly and liberal organizations and union workers also fought any changes. [67
Union workers first got to know Hawley as the vocal right-to-work supporter who single-handedly cut overtime pay protections for 237,000 workers and said a $12 minimum wage was “out of the ...
Spying by companies on union activities has been illegal in the United States since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. However, non-union monitoring of employee activities while at work is perfectly legal and, according to the American Management Association, nearly 80% of major US companies actively monitor their employees. [1] [2]
The law requires employers who voluntarily recognize a union to send their employees notice of that union's claims of majority support and inform those workers of their rights to contest those ...
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), abbreviated Janus v.AFSCME, is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on US labor law, concerning the power of labor unions to collect fees from non-union members.
The dissenting judges argued that union fees merely paid for benefits of collective bargaining that non-members otherwise received for free. These factors led campaign finance reform to be one of the most important issues in the 2016 US Presidential election, for the future of the labor movement, and democratic life.