Unions, Ledbetter Warn of Supreme Court Implications of Election

By Chris Opfer, Bloomberg BNA

Donald Trump’s power to nominate Supreme Court justices if elected to the White House is a threat to women workers, equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and two union officials said Aug. 19.

Ledbetter, a former Goodyear tire plant supervisor who discovered she was making less than her male colleagues after 20 years on the job, lost her pay discrimination case in a divided 2007 Supreme Court decision. Congress later passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to tweak time limits on federal pay bias claims.

“It’s very critical who we vote for in this country ...