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NLRB Offers Further Guidance on Confidential Workplace Investigations
I believe that the NLRB fails to understand the importance of confidentiality in workplace investigations, and further fails to understand the realities of how workplace investigations work.
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Disaffected Workers Want Out of Unions
… becoming so disillusioned by what their unions can, or rather can't, do for them ..... nationally and 10.6 percent in Illinois. " Unions lack sufficient power to get their way ..... rank-and-file employees have opposed unions all along, of course. Despite organizing …
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Deploy the Girl Scout Cookie Offensive to Ward Off Labor Unions
Consider whether permitting your employees to sell cookies or engage in other innocent solicitations is worth the risk that if a union organization drive rears its head, you will be left powerless to engage one of your key weapons—the no-solicitation policy.
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U.S. Labor Department Seeks Clamp Down on Union Activity Advice
… concerns that some employers and their labor relations consultants were interfering with the right of employees to organize unions and bargain collectively under the National Labor Relations Act. Following the recommendations of a Senate investigation …
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Businesses Tout Marriage Equality Bill for Workers
… Department are limited because of DOMA, which was signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996. The law excludes same-sex unions from more than 1,000 federal benefits and protections. Even same-sex couples married in one of the nine states that allow …
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What Are Right-To-Work Laws, and Should you Care?
… laws prohibit agreements between labor unions and employers that require employees to ..... Hartley Act . Before 1947, it was legal for unions and employers to agree, via their collective ..... a "closed shop." In a closed shop, unions and employers could require that employees …
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Michigan Lawmakers Pass Controversial Right-to-Work Legislation; Gov. Snyder Expected to Sign
… right to unionize is not affected, but unions are obligated to represent nonmembers in ..... Covers public- and private-sector unions except for firefighters, law enforcement and federal unions . Private-sector and public-sector …
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The Internet is Today's Employee Complaint Box
… of deeper import for employers. Labor unions are using social media, and using it ..... organizing drives. It is not just labor unions that are using social media and the Internet ..... outside the organizational outreach of labor unions . Case in point—the recent launch …
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Report: Big Apple's Job Growth Predicted to Slow
… increases are a big part of city spending, and without them the city is giving a false message," Lowenstein said. "The unions are looking to the next administration to see what they can get. And the city no longer has money in reserve for retroactive …
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Michigan Governor Signs Right-to-Work Bills Into Law
… become the 24th right-to-work state in the United States. During a news conference, Snyder said numerous times that the unions placing Proposal 2 on the November ballot, which would have enshrined collective bargaining rights in the state's Constitution …
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Looming Strike in India a Threat to U.S. Companies?
… nationwide strike. The company is a subsidiary of Infosys Ltd. and has more than 21,000 employees around the world. Indian trade unions called for a nationwide strike to protest India's opening of its retail sector to international retailers Walmart and Tesco …
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What Scares Employers? How About a Union Organizing Campaign
… policy. You must also take seriously the National Labor Relations Act's rules against applying policies to single-out labor unions and the employees who support them. If you only enforce your no-solicitation policy when faced with a union organizing campaign …
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New York City Fast-Food Workers Strike to Protest Wage Rates
Workers formed picket lines outside some New York City fast-food eateries to protest their wages and hours as part of a unionization campaign.
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Arbitrator Reinstates Chrysler Workers Fired for Drinking During Breaks
The workers were fired in September 2010 after a Fox network station in Detroit filmed them during breaks drinking alcohol and smoking in a nearby parking lot over several days.
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Michigan Unions Sue to Halt Mandated DB-or-DC Choice
… seeking class-action status filed Monday by a coalition of unions . According to the lawsuit, filed in Ingham County Court in ..... into an existing defined contribution plan. Last year, the unions won a similar case after the Legislature passed a bill requiring …
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Shifting Out of Reverse
… create jobs here in the U.S. And that's really speaking from a US perspective. We obviously have lots of relationships with unions globally and those are very different and some are more challenging than others. Workforce: There seem to be fewer women in …
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Two-Tiered Pay Scale for Autoworkers Raises Debate
… say the union's concessions may have a lasting effect, not just for the auto industry but for the power and integrity of unions across many fields. Dziczek says the new salary structure would have been unheard of only a few years before, but the union …
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The One Question I Would Ask Joe Biden During the Debates
… American business community would not-so-respectfully disagree with you, and believe that activist federal agencies and labor unions are dangerously holding us back. What would you say to business owners of all sizes who believe that your administration …
