BNA Books Announces the 2011 Cumulative Supplement to “Labor Union Law and Regulation”

BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, today announced the publication of the 2011 Cumulative Supplement to Labor Union Law and Regulation, addressing and analyzing new developments in the law applicable to union governance.

This treatise is the only book of this magnitude that covers laws and regulations affecting the union, its members, and other represented employees. Labor Union Law and Regulation organizes and clarifies the widely varying laws and regulations governing labor unions. This exhaustive work, written by recognized experts in the field, covers all the significant aspects of labor union laws and regulations, including in-depth discussions of the Landrum-Griffin Act (LMRDA).

Labor Union Law and Regulation differs from the traditional approach to labor union law that organizes the subject by statutes and, instead, arranges chapters to address the various federal and state regulations by reference to a particular subject or function of operation. This approach facilitates a clearer, more practical understanding of this complex area of the law and the interaction of its various requirements. The authors of this reference are all seasoned practitioners who provide incisive analysis and valuable guidance as they explore every facet of labor union law.

The 2011 Cumulative Supplement includes discussion of:

• The protracted litigation in federal court under the LMRDA and LMRA Section 301(a) engendered by the contested merger between the United Transportation Union and the Sheet Metal Workers and the resistance of local union officers to the imposition of a trusteeship by the parent union
• Recent duty of fair representations cases, including the decision by the Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano addressing the standard to be applied to the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement provision and a decision by the Fourth Circuit addressing whether the duty of fair representation affords a basis for removing a state court cause of action by a union member against the union
• Union-security decisions by the National Labor Relations Board on whether a union can require nonmembers to renew their objections to union expenditures on an annual basis and decisions by the Second Circuit on whether lobbying expenses relating to the union’s collective bargaining function and/or the cost of union conventions are properly “chargeable” to nonmembers
• Internal union precedents and principles applicable to federal sector unions and employees

The treatise was published in cooperation with the Committee on Union Administration and Procedureof the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law. Section publications provide a balanced forum for the views and professional development of practitioners in labor and employment law. For more information on Section participation, please call the Section at 312.988.5813 or visit www.americanbar.org/groups/labor_law.html.

The editor-in-chief of Labor Union Law and Regulation, with 2011 Cumulative Supplement is William W. Osborne, Jr., Osborne Law Offices, P.C., Washington, DC, who has engaged in the practice of union-side labor law and employee representation since 1976. The 2011 Cumulative Supplement is written by the same group of experienced union lawyers who worked on the 2009 Cumulative Supplement, with the addition of Federal Labor Relations Authority Member Ernest Dubester