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High Court Tackles 4 Cases Involving Workers, Unions

Posted On: Nov 23, 2015

Nov. 23, 2015 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | From affirmative action to agency fees to whistleblower rights, a spate of worker-oriented cases either wound up before the U.S. Supreme Court in November, or are headed there, with the opposing sides laying out their positions this past month. And while most of labor focuses on one of the looming conflicts - the agency-fee case Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association - the others are important, too. That's because the court, and particularly its five-man Republican-named majority, appears poised to drastically rewrite not just labor law, but working conditions in the U.S. Peoples World