Recently by James R. Redeker
The Employee Free Choice Act, REGISTER Act, Employee Patriot Act And More - The Unions' Strategy To Stage A Comeback
Editor: How does The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) fit into an overall strategy to engineer a comeback for unions? Redeker: A lot of attention is being focused on The Employee Free Choice Act, but it is just the first prong in a five-pronged union strategy to take advantage of the change in the...
Read MoreLabor's Bail-Out Demands
When the Obama administration takes over, Big Labor will likely seek its own bail-out from the government. But rather than basing its plea on flawed business decisions that, left uncorrected, will have a catastrophic effect on the nation's economy, Big Labor will argue that it should get something...
Read MoreLabor Board's GC Gets Tough(er) On First Contract Shenanigans
According to Ronald Meisburg, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, the negotiation of the first contract after the certification of a bargaining representative is critical to whether the collective bargaining relationship will continue indefinitely into the future or die a quick...
Read MoreWhen Professionals Also Supervise: The Kentucky River Cases
Within moments of the publication of the National Labor Relations Board's decisions in the cases popularly known as the ' Kentucky River Cases,' ( Oakwood Healthcare, Inc. , 348 NLRB No. 37 (2006); Golden Crest Healthcare Center, 348 NLRB No. 39 (2006); Croft Metals, Inc., 348 NLRB No. 38 (2006...
Read MoreCombating Recognition By Extortion: Employer Responses To Union Corporate Campaigns
Losing the battle for the hearts and minds of American workers, organized labor has turned increasingly to "corporate campaigns" to replenish its shrinking ranks of paying members. Through the use of various coercive devices, these campaigns are designed to compel (Herb Northrup of Harvard calls it...
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