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Real Work: Domestic Workers' Exclusion From The Protections Of Labor Laws, Lisa Diaz-Ordaz Sep 2010

Real Work: Domestic Workers' Exclusion From The Protections Of Labor Laws, Lisa Diaz-Ordaz

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Pedagogy And Critique: Values And Assumptions In The Law School Classroom, Richard Michael Fischl Jun 2010

Pedagogy And Critique: Values And Assumptions In The Law School Classroom, Richard Michael Fischl

The Docket

Michael Fischl offers further reflections on the importance of Emeritus Professor James Atleson's scholarship, in response to our Symposium on James Atleson's Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective, 57 Buff. L. Rev. 629.


The Opeb Tsunami: Riding The Wave Of Public Sector Postemployment Health Benefits, Jenna Amato Moran May 2010

The Opeb Tsunami: Riding The Wave Of Public Sector Postemployment Health Benefits, Jenna Amato Moran

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Causation Standard In Federal Employment Law: Gross V. Fbl Financial Services, Inc., And The Unfulfilled Promise Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1991, Michael C. Harper Jan 2010

The Causation Standard In Federal Employment Law: Gross V. Fbl Financial Services, Inc., And The Unfulfilled Promise Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1991, Michael C. Harper

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick Jan 2010

Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick

Journal Articles

Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions in the United States? Union democracy is likely an essential precondition for the broader strategic and organizational changes unions must undertake in order to recruit new union members — the labor movement’s cardinal priority. Yet according to widely accepted wisdom, the weakness of democracy within labor unions is the unavoidable outcome of an “iron law of oligarchy” that operates in all such membership-based organizations. This Article challenges this conventional thinking and argues that the triumph of oligarchy over democracy in US labor unions is not inevitable, …