Disorganized Labor: Is Knox v. SEIU the Nail in the Coffin for Public Sector Unions?

Authors

John Stanley

Abstract

This note offers a brief history of public sector unions in America and introduces the reader to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its role as a political player. It then lays the legal foundation on which Knox rests and examines the Knox decision itself. This note concludes that Knox is a significant event in the long-term decline of organized public sector labor, which is bound to dwindle along with unionized labor generally.

Recommended Citation

John Stanley, Disorganized Labor: Is Knox v. SEIU the Nail in the Coffin for Public Sector Unions?, 33 J. Nat’l Ass’n Admin. L. Judiciary Iss. 2 (2013)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/naalj/vol33/iss2/9