Bloomberg Law
Feb. 15, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

SEIU Appeal Implicates Strikes, Worker Actions Across U.S.

Hassan A. Kanu
Hassan A. Kanu
Legal Reporter

A janitors’ union in San Francisco has taken on a court battle with major implications for what workers can do to protest their employers’ practices, and the fight starts immediately in the wake of a government finding that more individual Americans went on strike in 2018 than any year since 1986.

The Service Employees International Union filed a federal court appeal to challenge a labor board ruling that a group of subcontracted janitors were justifiably fired for picketing at the building where they worked. The workers were objecting to low pay and alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor, according to ...

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