February 24, 2023
The Fourth Circuit on Friday denied a bid from North Carolina's only farmworkers union for a second look at the appeals court's decision backing a state law that prevents so-called dues checkoff agreements and settlements requiring agricultural employers to recognize unions.
January 12, 2023
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee urged the full Fourth Circuit to review a decision upholding a North Carolina law restricting farmworker dues collection and barring settlements requiring farms to recognize unions, saying a panel botched applying U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
September 14, 2022
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday waded into choppy constitutional waters, hearing dueling visions of whether a North Carolina law targets the state's lone farmworker union by preventing checkoff agreements and settlements requiring agricultural producers to recognize and bargain with unions.
March 04, 2022
The Fourth Circuit will soon hear arguments over whether a North Carolina law illegally barred dues checkoff agreements for farmworkers and settlements requiring agricultural producers to recognize and collectively bargain with unions, raising novel legal questions that will affect the tools unions in the state use to bolster organizing efforts.