• Los Angeles officials push SEIU-backed scheme to fasten unions on nonunion workforce at LAX airport [Brian Sumers, Contra Costa Times]
• Want to empower cities? Reform binding labor arbitration [Stephen Eide, Urbanophile]
• “Explainer: What Does President Obama’s Equal Pay Day Executive Order Change?” [Rachel Homer, On Labor]
• One lawyer’s advice: “when an employee complains about discrimination, or otherwise engages in protected conduct, you must treat that employee with kid gloves” [Jon Hyman on Sixth Circuit retaliation case]
• Detroit juggles pension numbers to fix deficit, papers over the real problem [Dan Kadlec, Time; Shikha Dalmia, Washington Examiner]
• No room left to cut budget, part 245,871: federal grants promote labor unions [Examiner]
• More on EEOC’s campaign to limit employment criminal background checks [Coyote, Daniel Schwartz]

Filed under: aviation, criminal records and hiring, Detroit, EEOC, executive orders, labor unions, Los Angeles, public employment, retaliation