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Friday, July 16, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court held California’s union access regulation constitutes an unconstitutional taking of an employer’s property.  Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, 141 S.Ct. 891 (June 23, 2021). The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) maintained a regulation allowing unions to file notices with the ALRB to gain access to agricultural employers’ property for up to three hours per day, 120 days per year. Members of the United Farm Workers Union sought access to property owned by Cedar Point Nursery and Fowler Packing Company pursuant to the...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A Bipartisan Deal On Infrastructure Remains Out Of Grasp. Last week, the GOP offered a counter proposal to Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, topping out at – so close – almost $1 Trillion. However, the GOP offer only included $200 million of new money with the rest reprogrammed COVID aid already paid. The Biden folks show no inclination to accept this. Despite the increase in the overall size of their package, the GOP proposal still deviates significantly from Joe Biden’s proposal. Specifically, the GOP proposal focuses excl...

Denying "1619 Project" founder's tenure buys into so-called objectivity debate stifling free speech Salon 2 hrs ago Nikole Hannah-Jones Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Peabody Awards Last month, the University of North Carolina failed to offer tenure to journalist Nikole-Hannah Jones, despite how the university's Hussman School of Journalism and Media not only recommended Hannah-Jones for tenure, but also recently named her the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.  Recent reporting in the Washington Post this week has suggested UNC's decision was i...

This is a weekly post spotlighting labor topics in focus by the US legislative and executive branches during the previous week.

On Wednesday, May 26, 2021, President Biden nominated Gwynne Wilcox to fill the last remaining vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board ("Board").