Supreme Court to Take Up Challenges to Union Practices

 Some important court decisions are coming our way...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/business/supreme-court-to-take-up-challenges-to-union-practices.html?_r=0

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
New York Times
Published: November 10, 2013

Labor leaders and businesses are closely watching a Supreme Court case to be argued this Wednesday that involves a popular strategy used by unions to successfully organize hundreds of thousands of workers.

That strategy — widely deployed by the Service Employees International Union and the Unite Here hotel workers union — involves pressuring an employer into signing a so-called neutrality agreement in which the employer promises not to oppose a unionization drive. By some estimates, more than half of the recent successful unionization campaigns involve such agreements, which sometimes allow union organizers onto company property to talk with workers.