“We took today’s step with careful consideration,” WME said in a statement. “The WGA negotiating committee has made it clear both through its legal action and unwillingness to negotiate that it was never interested in making a reasonable deal. We are now left to seek a legal remedy for this dispute. While we wish we were not in this position, we will not capitulate to a leadership group that …
“The argument is once something is deemed to be unconstitutional [in the civil context] — agency fees — then they’re deemed to be retroactively unconstitutional. But that decision, he said, should be made free from the external pressures created by mandatory agency fees. AFSCME and other unions, Hughes acknowledged, can be expected to fight the lawsuit “tooth and nail,” given the amount of …
A lawsuit filed by Ottawa’s taxi union exactly one year after council approved a new vehicle-for-hire bylaw accuses the city of “slanting the playing field against taxicab drivers.” “The city demonstrated a closed mind and an unwillingness to properly notify, consult and consider in an even-handed, good-faith manner, the direct consequences, and in particular, the commercial effect of its …
A federal judge has cleared the way for a lead and copper mining company’s lawsuit against Union Pacific over lead pollution to move forward. This lawsuit related to contamination in Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Basin is one of several pending between Tucson, Arizona-based Asarco and Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific. A judge decided last week to reject Union Pacific’s motion for summary judgment in …
A bitter feud over Florida’s largest private school voucher program ended Wednesday when the state Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit challenging a program used by nearly 98,000 school children. The court in a 4-1 decision declined to hear the case, resulting in a significant victory for backers of school choice programs while handing a sizable defeat to Florida’s main …
The summarized version of the story is that per Union’s contract, she’s only supposed to shoot 13 episodes per season of the series so she can have time to do films. But when the network called for 10-episode seasons to …
Hydraulic extenders jut out to meet the 4 train to fill in gaps created by a curve in the Union Square station. ( dalioPhoto /Flickr) Jurors awarded $10 million to the man who survived being crushed between a subway platform extender and a train in the Union Square station in 2010. Michael Dion sued after suffering a commuter’s worst nightmare in December 2010, when he fell into a gap between …
District Judge Margaret Marrinan ruled late Wednesday that the case against Gov. Mark Dayton, state Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, St. Paul Public Schools and three other districts did not show Minnesota’s teachers union protections were directly connected to the academic achievement gap or students of color receiving ineffective teachers. Marrinan’s ruling said the issues raised by …
A nonunion electrical contractor who traded punches with labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty in January filed a federal lawsuit Monday against him and his local, accusing them of racketeering. Joshua Keesee, who says Dougherty broke his nose in the fight, contends that he has become a pariah in his trade since the clash, with developers refusing to hire him to avoid antagonizing Dougherty. …
Former NBPA head Billy Hunter was removed three years ago under a cloud of suspicion regarding improper practices, including the hiring of family members in key positions and contract situations. Hunter is suing the union for wrongful termination, and now ESPN reports that some extremely big names have been served for deposition in the case: Hunter won a major contention point in June when a …