Harris v Quinn
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What does the Harris v. Quinn decision mean for home care workers?
Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Harris v. Quinn last month, some have questioned the future of home care worker organizing. The ruling stated that unions cannot require home care workers who choose not to be represented by the union to pay fees. According to a recent article in Portside by Dave Jamieson, however, the…
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Labor’s Only Real Choice: Beating Harris v. Quinn and Right-to-Work Attacks From the Inside Out
Jane McAlevey is working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. This article was written by originally posted in The Nation. Unions are in trouble. Short of a giant meteor crashing on top of the nation’s union headquarters emblazoned with the words, “warning, you will soon be crushed by right-to-work laws,” few things could…
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Is Harris v. Quinn a Threat to Labor Peace?
Joshua Freeman is a professor of Labor History at The Murphy Institute. This article was originally published in The Nation. The five-to-four Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn is a blow to organized labor, a movement that in recent decades has suffered one blow after another, with victories few and far between. But it…
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Bad Week for Workers at the Supreme Court
By Penny Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute. It’s been a bad week for workers and unions at the US Supreme Court (not to mention women and families in general). Last week, in NLRB v. Noel Canning, the Court affirmed the lower court decision that three appointments to the labor…
