Maybe its appropriate (or entirely a coincidence) that during the week in which we celebrate Labor Day, there have been so many stories in the news and in blogs discussing organized labor. Some proof, you ask?
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Board Decision Approves Stationary Bannering as Lawful Tactic in Secondary Boycotts – from the Washington DC Employment Law Update (discussing United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local Union No. 1506, in which the NLRB, in a partisan-line 3-2 decision, concluded that pro-union bannering, when conducted peaceably and independent of other, possibly coercive, conduct, is lawful).
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Obama NLRB Prepares To Eliminate Right to Secret Ballot for Union Organizing – from Mike Eastman at the Chamber Post (discussing the NLRB’s intent to “reconsider” Dana Corp., its 2007 decision which provided a limited window for secret-ballot decertifications following a card check recognition of a union).
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Organized Labor Targets Carwashes – from The Word on Employment Law with John Philips (discussing unions’ efforts to organize carwashes in Southern California).
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Big Labor’s Power Grab – from Mark Mix at the National Review, c/o npr.org (discussing unions’ efforts to overturn pro-management Bush-era NLRB decisions).
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Nostalgia For Unions – from E. J. Dionne at The New Republic, also c/o npr.org (yearning for labor unions in these tough economic times).
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