Know Your Rights

Doug Bonney speaking at June, 2001 ‘Workers and the Law’ Conference Initiated by kclabor.org

The following articles by Kansas City labor attorney Doug Bonney clear up many common misconceptions about legal rights on the job and point workers who have legal questions in the right direction to get answers.

A Brief and Incomplete Tour of U.S. Labor Law: 
Where We Are, How We Got Here, and Who Drove the Bus

Wrongful Termination
Family & Medical Leave
Severance Pay
The Right to Strike
The Real Paycheck Protection Act
Problems Organizing Contingent Workers
Women's Rights
Severance Pay & ERISA
Employer Domination of Labor Organizations
The Right to Cuss?
Section 7 Rights
Secondary Boycotts
Collective Bargaining for Some  
Still Second Class Citizens: Public Employees In Missouri  
Union Stewards
No Rights
When Division 1287 Went to the Supreme Court
Hoffman Plastic Compounds I: The Need for Labor Law Reform
The Mythical Right to Work
The Myth of Pay Privacy
The Minimum Wage Myth
The Mythical Right To Your Day In Court

See also our Labor Law resource page

Labor Party Discussion Paper, Toward a New Labor Law