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Broad Street Brief: Parker Admin Strikes Deal with DC47

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Parker Admin Strikes Deal with DC47- Mayor Cherelle Parker reached a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday with AFSCME District Council 47, Philadelphia’s white collar City workers union. The successful negotiations...more

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Trump Executive Order Targets Federal Unions and Sparks Legal Battle over Bargaining at 18 Agencies

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By Executive Order dated March 27, 2025, entitled, “Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs,” President Trump moved to end collective bargaining with unions at 18 federal agencies and urged them to void...more

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New Executive Orders May Contradict Federal Collective Bargaining Agreements

During his first two weeks in office, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders that may conflict with provisions embedded in federal union contracts and that have led to lawsuits challenging the actions....more

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Philadelphia Mayor’s Mandate Requiring Return to In-Person Work Prevails in Court of Common Pleas

Mayor Cherelle Parker’s mandate requiring City of Philadelphia remote workers to return to their offices took effect on July 15, 2024, following the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge’s denial of a local union’s request...more

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New York Appellate Court Reverses Order Compelling Arbitration, Holds Collective Bargaining Agreement Arbitration Provisions...

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New York statutes classify certain civil service positions as exempt where such positions are confidential in nature and require personal qualities that cannot practicably be tested by an examination. These positions are...more

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Union (In)Security: SCOTUS Prohibits Public Sector Union Security and Missouri May Tip The Private Sector Scales

The decades-long battle over union security faces two important pivot points during the summer of 2018. On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States handed unions a major defeat in the season’s first major fight. ...more

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Fair Share Union Fees Are Not Fair: SCOTUS Rules Public Sector Non-Members Don’t Need to Pay

On June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision in a case that tested the constitutionality of requiring mandatory payment of “fair share” union dues to be paid by non-member public sector...more

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Court Affirms Reinstatement of A School Bus Driver Who Tested Positive For Drug Use

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Upper Merion Area School District v. Teamsters Local #384, 165 A.3d 56 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2017). The Commonwealth Court holds that an arbitrator’s decision to reinstate a school bus driver to her position with back pay when the bus...more

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Is the Inability to Perform the Required Duties of the Job Just Cause for a Public Employee’s Discharge? It Depends. (PART I)

In November 2017, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an opinion concerning an arbitrator’s reinstatement of a state correctional officer (“CO”). The CO was responsible for monitoring inmates who worked on the...more

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New Jersey Supreme Court Says Salary Step Increments are Negotiable, but Avoids Dynamic Status Quo Issue

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In a highly anticipated decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the issue of salary step increments is a mandatorily negotiable term and condition of employment. However, the Court did not decide whether New Jersey’s...more

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Public Sector Employees in Three States Sue to Nix Fair Share Fees

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Four Pennsylvania school teachers, two Santa Clara Valley Medical Center pharmacists, and three New York school workers have filed separate suits challenging the constitutionality of state requirements permitting the unions...more

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Pending Supreme Court Case Could Affect Collection of Public Employee Union Agency Shop Fees

Recently, the United States Supreme Court commenced a new session with a docket full of interesting cases. One case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, is of particular significance to those in the field of...more

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