21 States have sued the Labor Department to block its new overtime rule. The 30-page lawsuit, filed in a Texas court, asserts that the rule will allocate funds to paying overtime and salaries, rather than allowing States to determine their best policies and priorities. The lawsuit also contends that the 10th Amendment prevents the White House from decreeing…
A Houston jury today ordered the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to pay Professional Janitorial Services (PJS) Houston $5.3 million in damages for making false claims about the company’s business practices and treatment of PJS employees. The successful lawsuit is part of a plan to project PJS employees from forced unionization. Read more about it here.
Leaving is too Much Labor by Diana Furchcott-Roth It’s no easier for state employees to get rid of a union. A group of personal care assistants in Minnesota is trying to leave the Service Employees International Union-Healthcare Minnesota. Personal care assistants, who get Medicaid funds to look after disabled and sick people, are paid by…
Does the union really think these PCAs are stupid? The state can increase the subsidy, and has done so periodically for years without the union. The so-called “paid time off” the SEIU claims to have secured for these brave women (and they are mostly women) is also a crock: Who can take time off caring…
The National Labor Relations Board has made that task much more difficult. In Graymont PA, Inc. 364 NLRB No. 37 (June 29, 2016), the Board held that an employer must meet a very high level of specificity in a management-rights clause before the Board will find that the union unequivocally waived its right to bargain…
As these innovations continue to transform freight rail and the entire transportation sector, federal regulations must adapt to reflect this modernization. Unfortunately, a recent Federal Railroad Administration proposal to mandate two-person crews on freight trains flies in the face of this progress and threatens to stall continued innovation by dragging the industry back to the…
Legal challenges to Persuader Rule prove to be successful. Last week a judge in Minnesota stated there was likely sufficient evidence to overturn the Department of Labor’s rule. This week another judge put the new regulation on ice. Attorney’s and Employers are breathing a sigh of relief as the rule would have required reporting that many…
By Diana Furchgott-Roth The Federal Aviation Administration’s funding extension lasts until July. The House version of the FAA reauthorization includes spinning off Air Traffic Control into the ATC Corporation, a federally chartered, not-for-profit monopoly. The Senate version does not include this measure. Congress needs to pass a bill by the end of July, or the…
by F. Vincent Vernuccio April 15, 2016 11:23 AM Let non-union workers choose whether they want the union to represent them. A Wisconsin judge recently struck down the state’s right-to-work law. Dane County judge William Foust ruled that under the law, “a free-rider problem is born — the ability of nonmembers to refuse to pay…
Privatizing the air traffic control system sounds like a good idea. It has at least since 1981 when then-President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers for going out on strike. Now there is a bill before Congress, the Aviation Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization Act (AIRR), which proponents say will that do exactly that. Or will it?…
