By John Gregory | KET It’s been a productive General Assembly session for the new Republican majorities in the Kentucky Senate and House of Representatives. The GOP leadership has ushered a number of major bills on education, the economy and other issues through to final passage despite only having 30 days to complete their work. […]
Long on the wish list of Republicans and business organizations in Kentucky, a House committee in Frankfort finally passed a so-called “right to work” bill on Wednesday along a party-line vote, sending it to the full House for final passage that might happen before the end of the week. Such legislation has easily passed the […]
This post is part of a series of stories shedding light on the inner-workings of Metro Government and its many agencies and operations. The series will culminate in a special Insiders Meetup headlined by Mayor Greg Fischer at ReSurfaced on Oct. 13, 2014. For the other stories in this series you can go here, here and […]
This year the powerless Democrats put on a similar display, but to no avail. With tens of thousands of protesters and pro-union demonstrators, Indiana became ground zero in the war on working people, and working people lost.
This post has been updated with union comment. The Kentucky Supreme Court Thursday issued opinions striking down the law creating medical review panels for medical malpractice lawsuits in the state and upholding the so-called “right-to-work” law that prohibits requiring employees to pay union dues. The court, however, did not release its much-anticipated ruling on whether […]
Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled Wednesday that Kentucky’s “right-to-work” law passed last year is constitutional, in a defeat to the local labor unions that filed a lawsuit against Gov. Matt Bevin challenging the law. The Kentucky State AFL-CIO and Teamsters Local 89 filed the lawsuit last May, seeking injunctive relief from enforcement of the […]
With a pivotal Louisville Metro Council vote related to the proposed $50 million soccer stadium only hours away, Louisville City FC leaders and a workers rights group remain at odds over the minimum wage that workers in the soccer district should be paid. A club official told Insider that LouCity FC already had taken the […]
By Daniel Desrochers | Lexington Herald-Leader FRANKFORT — The AFL-CIO and Teamsters Union filed a lawsuit in Franklin Circuit Court Thursday challenging the constitutionality of a new law that prohibits unions from requiring employees to pay dues in an unionized workplace. The lawsuit argues that the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional because it treats unions […]
The Kentucky and Louisville chambers of commerce are supporting a bill intended to conform state laws governing the wage and hour protections of workers with that of federal law — though two prominent local labor attorneys have called the legislation an attack on the rights of many low-income workers. Senate Bill 237 was filed by […]
During Gov. Matt Bevin’s State of the Commonwealth address last week, he praised the Kentucky General Assembly’s recent passage of a so-called “right to work” bill, claiming the ambassador of Sweden recently confided to him that Volvo would have chosen to locate a new plant in Kentucky if the state had such a law at the […]
