Friday’s opinion by Judge Stephen Reinhardt in Davis v. Team Electric Co. addresses many of the problems confronted by women trying to enter, and to stay in the workforce on construction sites. As you might guess from the identity of the opinion’s author, the results are almost uniformly favorable to the female plaintiff.
Christie Davis worked […]
Must a union divulge its evaluations of possible grievances, or its bargaining committee’s notes, when they are relevant and are demanded by an adverse party?
Say the employer in an arbitration suspects that the union is processing a discharge grievance over the objection of fellow employees. Can the employer demand copies of the union grievance committee’s minutes […]
Senators Lyda Green and Con Bundy have introduced SB 276, which would give each employee working on certain Project Labor Agreement sites the option to receive fringe benfits from either his or her current employer, another employer of the employee, or the union that negotiated the PLA.
SB 276 would apply to AGIA and to PLA’s under Title […]
The Supreme Court this week agreed to resolve issues related to a) CBA-compelled arbitration of statutory discrimination claims; b) agency payor responsibility for union litigation expenses; and c) ERISA’s anti-alienation provision.
You can find blog commentary at Workplace Professor and Daily Developments in EEO Law (02/19/08 post).
UC-Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor & Employment has created an on-line Labor Contracts Database. It appears to be heavily weighted toward public-sector contracts, but that may simply reflect the fact that unions are increasingly public-sector phenomena.
The Database includes the University of Alaska/AFT and the State of Alaska/AFCSME contracts.
H/T: Workplace Professor.
Two recent appellate opinions illustrate the possibilities and limitations for employees pursuing wage claims.
The 9th Circuit case reminds practitioners that § 301 permits an individual union member to sue for unpaid wages laid out in the CBA, as well as for wrongful discharge.
Although claims arising under a collective bargaining agreement that concern questions of labor policy […]
Member claims against a union: The 9th Circuit has affirmed judgment against a union under both Title VII and DFR theories.
DFR claim: The Court affirmed a trial court’s findings that a union had breached its duty by failing to file a timely grievance when the union has agreed to do so, and that such conduct substantially injured the […]
The Seattle office of the EEOC has sued NEA-Alaska on behalf of Denise Poole and a class of all similarly-situated female employees, alleging harassment and intimidation on the basis of sex, and for retaliatory harassment and intimidation as a result of having complained about the underlying harassment.
The present suit follows an earlier one for similar alleged […]
Lenny Arsenault was Business Manager of Fairbanks Local 375 of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters from 1976 through 1991. For the last ten of those years, he was also International Vice President of the UA, responsible for all the West Coast locals. During his reign, Arsenault’s power within the Alaska labor movement was exceeded only […]
The Court ruled this Thursday morning, in Davenport v. Washington Education Association, 2007 WL 1703022 (June 14, 2007), that a state may prohibit a public employee union from using the agency-shop fees of a non-member for election-related purposes if the nonmember hasn’t affirmatively consented. The Court (via J. Scalia) characterized the law as essentially a limitation […]
