As public sector budgets have waxed and waned in response to changes in the economic cycle over the past 30 years, public sector employers increasingly have sought to control personnel costs by resorting to measures such as wage freezes and furloughs. Not infrequently, those measures have pitted the viability of collective bargaining agreements against the ability of government to protect its coffers. This article examines those court decisions that have considered the reach of the contract clause in this setting over the past thirty years. Most of these courts properly have applied the principles established by the Supreme Court in the United States Trust Co. decision so as to restrict the permissible scope of self-serving legislative modi...
One reflecting upon the legal nature of a collective bargaining agreement can hardly avoid beginning...
Most observers would say that the employment relationship is regulated largely by statutes. This Art...
In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to...
As public sector budgets have waxed and waned in response to changes in the economic cycle over the ...
During cycles of public sector budgetary crises, governmental entities frequently undertake efforts ...
Whether the public sector is indeed sufficiently different from the private sector to warrant the as...
While there seems to be considerable justification for viewing thepublic employee as the functional ...
(Excerpt) This Note argues that, despite its notorious reputation as the case that permitted and enc...
Between 1973 and 1980, across Ohio there were 428 public employee labor actions. In the face of such...
This article discusses the arguments against adopting collective bargaining in the public sector and...
Section II will state cases from each of these groups to show the reasons the courts gave for reachi...
The brief history of public sector collective bargaining encompasses two periods of economic extreme...
The purpose of this Article is to examine the Ohio Act in terms of its accommodation of the major th...
The beginning of the second decade of the 21st century saw renewed attacks on public employee collec...
In recent years, a number of states have enacted legislation providing collective bargaining rights ...
One reflecting upon the legal nature of a collective bargaining agreement can hardly avoid beginning...
Most observers would say that the employment relationship is regulated largely by statutes. This Art...
In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to...
As public sector budgets have waxed and waned in response to changes in the economic cycle over the ...
During cycles of public sector budgetary crises, governmental entities frequently undertake efforts ...
Whether the public sector is indeed sufficiently different from the private sector to warrant the as...
While there seems to be considerable justification for viewing thepublic employee as the functional ...
(Excerpt) This Note argues that, despite its notorious reputation as the case that permitted and enc...
Between 1973 and 1980, across Ohio there were 428 public employee labor actions. In the face of such...
This article discusses the arguments against adopting collective bargaining in the public sector and...
Section II will state cases from each of these groups to show the reasons the courts gave for reachi...
The brief history of public sector collective bargaining encompasses two periods of economic extreme...
The purpose of this Article is to examine the Ohio Act in terms of its accommodation of the major th...
The beginning of the second decade of the 21st century saw renewed attacks on public employee collec...
In recent years, a number of states have enacted legislation providing collective bargaining rights ...
One reflecting upon the legal nature of a collective bargaining agreement can hardly avoid beginning...
Most observers would say that the employment relationship is regulated largely by statutes. This Art...
In its recent Harris v. Quinn opinion the U.S. Supreme Court (in particular Justice Alito) seemed to...