A 'Yellow Dog Contract' And Other Jabs During Supreme Court Opening Arguments
Up first for the high court's new term: a case about nonunion employees' right to take action against alleged illegality by their employer.
Whose ox is being illegally gored? That was the question in the first case argued Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court, the first of the new 2017 term.
The case may sound technical — a clash between two federal statutes. But at stake are the rights of tens of million private-sector nonunion employees.
A study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute shows that of nonunion private-sector employees are currently subject to mandatory individual arbitration procedures under the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act, which allows employers to
