● Nice:
The U.S. Supreme Court dashed business hopes for new limits on class-action lawsuits, upholding a $5.8 million wage award to workers at a Tyson Foods Inc. pork-processing plant in Iowa. [...]
The ruling is a victory for consumer and worker advocates who say class actions are an efficient way to hold companies accountable. Companies were seeking to extend a 2011 ruling that said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. couldn’t be sued by potentially a million female workers.
● Another look at Merrick Garland's positions on labor issues.
● The Kentucky Senate pulls anti-union bills from consideration.
● Non-tenure track faculty at Duke University have voted to unionize by a wide margin:
The Duke vote is the first union election in decades at a private university in the South, according to SEIU. But the Duke faculty join a national movement of unionization of college instructors. Some 10,000 have chosen to unionize in the past three years, SEIU said, at places such as the University of Chicago, Tufts and Georgetown universities.
● Teach for America’s diversity paradox.
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