August 23, 2010 -
By Jacob Horwitz, Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as
July 8, 2010 -
By Arthur Fox, Labor Notes The U.S. Supreme Court in mid-June knocked down 600 decisions by the National Labor Relations Board on the grounds that only two NLRB members lacked the authority needed to issue binding decisions. While pulling the rug out from under 600 decisions may seem cataclysmic, the likelihood is that the NLRB, now up to its full complement of five members, will quickly re-issue the decisions given that they were, for
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