One step closer to Right-to-Work in Wisconsin, ACA comes before the Supreme Court once more, the Feds release a report on policing in Ferguson, and more…
- Wisconsin takes a big step closer to becoming a right-to-work state as the State Assembly passes legislation barring unions from requiring workers to pay the equivalent of dues
- The Supreme Court is hearing a case brought on by yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Act — now about the right of states to not create exchanges
- The Justice Department conducted two investigations—one looking into the shooting of Michael Brown, and another into the Ferguson Police Department. The first ruled that there was no prosecutable case against Darren Wilson. The second, that “Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs.” More from Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic
- The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years
- Unions as lazy and overpaid? Over at the LA Times, Michael Hiltzik begs to differ
- The Corinthian 15, a group of for-profit college debtors who have launched a debt strike, got an endorsement from Rep. Maxine Waters of California
- This one’s sadly behind a paywall, but there’s a great piece in Harper’s this month about the human costs of workplace monitoring by Esther Kaplan
- Over at In These Times, Micah Uetricht interviews Steven Greenhouse about the state of labor journalism
