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The Open Shop, Closed Shop, Agency Shop, and Union Default in Comparative Perspective: Members, Resources, and Individual Autonomy

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now dominant open shop as well as the union default.
Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall
wiley   +1 more source

The Majority Approach to Arbitration Waiver: A Workable Test or A License for Litigants to Play Games with the Courts? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Excerpt] “The freedom of parties to agree to arbitrate their disputes is enshrined by contract law and federal law. By inserting a mandatory arbitration clause in a contract, both parties agree that, should a dispute arise between them, they will not ...
Savage, James
core   +1 more source

Conducting Eye‐Tracking Research in Acute Care: A Scoping Review of Ethical, Feasibility and Acceptability Challenges

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To identify and synthesise the ethical, feasibility and acceptability challenges associated with implementing eye‐tracking research with clinicians in acute care settings and to explore strategies to address these concerns. Design Scoping review using the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology.
Patrick Lavoie   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Whimsy Little Contracts” with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Arbitration clauses have become ubiquitous in consumer contracts. These arbitration clauses require consumers to waive the constitutional right to a civil jury, access to court, and, increasingly, the procedural remedy of class representation.
Greenberg, Elayne E.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
wiley   +1 more source

Cases That Would Have Been: Three Years After AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, Claims of Corporate Wrongdoing Continue to Pile Up [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the wake of two U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the past three years, consumers, workers and others harmed by unfair fine print in contracts are increasingly being shut out of the courthouse, a new Public Citizen and National Association of Consumer ...
Christine Hines, Ellen Taverna
core  

BG Group and “Conditions” to Arbitral Jurisdiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Although the Supreme Court has over the last decade generated a robust body of arbitration caselaw, its first decision in the area of investment arbitration under a Bilateral Investment Treaty was only handed down in 2014. BG Group v.
Bjorklund, Andrea K., Rau, Alan S.
core   +2 more sources

Mercy Consent and Contained Resistance: Grievance Systems in Chinese Food‐Delivery Platforms

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on a multi‐methods qualitative study, this article investigates how in‐platform grievance systems operate in the Chinese food‐delivery platform work. Drawing on labour process theory, we examine the role of in‐platform grievance systems in shaping the dynamic interplay between control, consent, and resistance. Our findings reveal that in‐
Ziheng Liu, Wei Wei
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening international climate law through regional trade agreements: Towards concretisation, adjudication and enforcement?

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent bilateral and plurilateral regional trade agreements (RTAs) increasingly incorporate climate‐related provisions, signalling a potential convergence of international trade and climate law. This trend goes beyond defensive provisions seeking to avoid conflicts between the two legal regimes, such as exceptions recognising climate change as
Andreas Buser
wiley   +1 more source

Do Just Energy Transition Partnerships collide or converge with substantive investment law standards? Case studies from Indonesia and Vietnam

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are novel financing mechanisms that encourage coal‐dependent emerging economies to transition away from fossil fuels. JETPs aim to facilitate coal phaseout and transitions to renewable energy through private and public financing.
Francine Hug
wiley   +1 more source

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