By: Ashley K. Laken, Esq.
On November 22, 2013, a group of home-care providers for Medicaid recipients in Illinois filed their brief in Harris v. Quinn (No. 11-681) in which they urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its precedent allowing union fair share fees to be imposed on public employees.
The Supreme Court…
By: Marc R. Jacobs, Esq.
As we reported in a prior blog post, in February 2012, Indiana became the 23rd state, and the first in the “Rust Belt” to pass a “right-to-work” law. In short, as applied to collective bargaining agreements that expired or are renewed, modified or extended after March 14, 2012,…
By: Ronald J. Kramer
On June 21, 2012, in Knox et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, the Supreme Court issued a landmark, 5-2-2 decision which held that a union that imposes a special fee or other dues increase mid-year to meet expenses that were not earlier disclosed when the regular dues rates…
