This week President Obama announced that Brian Hayes is his Republican nominee to fill the last remaining open seat on the National Labor Relations Board. Historically the Board appointments get voted on as a “package...
Read MoreIs the Employee Free Choice Act still alive? Al Franken is now officially seated and the 60-vote caucus needed to overcome a filibuster on the Free Choice Act is in place. But just when unions should be rejoicing in the streets,...
Read MoreThe Employee Free Choice Act may be stalled, but that’s not stopping the Teamsters. On Monday they posted an “all hands on deck” memo seeking 1,000 new organizers to help them deal with the “deluge”...
Read MoreThe Employee Free Choice Act’s mandatory arbitration provision has received way too little attention in the arguments over EFCA. This week Thomas Kochan posted a spirited defense of interest arbitration on the Center for...
Read MoreDo employers really support the Employee Free Choice Act? That’s a question I asked over at our other blog. One reader questioned my argument (using some analogy about men recommending birth control pills…) As...
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