The world economy is truly an international one. Technological advances in transportation and communications have eliminated many of the geographic barriers to trade and systems of production. Accompanying this change in product markets has been the globalization of labor markets, which means...

The joint-employer doctrine in the United States is as fissured as the economy itself. As this paper's brief survey of the different joint-employer standards used in the U.S. shows, the diverse set of work laws and governing authorities involved in workplace disputes have led to an unpredictable...

This Article is a review of the Supreme Court's 2013-2014 labor and employment law decisions. Among the cases discussed are Harris v. Quinn, Lane v. Franks, Lawson v. FMR, Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance Co., Sandifer v. United States Steel...

Membership in traditional unions has steeply declined over the past two decades. As the White House and Congress are now completely Republican controlled, there promises to be no reversal of this trend in the near future. In the face of this rejection of traditional bargaining efforts, several...

Commentators have made innumerable recommendations to improve the National Labor Relations Board’s administration of the National Labor Relations Act. Yet one subject that has been largely ignored in these discussions is the fact that no matter how good the administrative enforcement of the...

The rise of globalism has allowed businesses to expand their chains of production across the world and forced them to compete internationally. This expansion of competition has also extended to the labor market, as workers must now often compete with other workers from around the globe. This...

This article explores some of the ways in which employees have used electronic communications to seek better working conditions and argues that this medium will continue to grow in importance. However, several factors currently exist that limit the effectiveness of electronic collective action....

This Article is a review of the Supreme Court's 2012-2013 labor and employment law decisions. Among the cases discussed are University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, Vance v. Ball State University, US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, Kloeckner v. Solis, Genesis Healthcare Corp. v....

The NLRA's increasing obsolescence in the modern workplace is well-documented. Nowhere is this problem more apparent than where unions and employees use the Internet and other electronic communications to further employees' collective interests. Electronic communications pose significant...