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May 14, 2012
by Amber McKinney
National Labor Relations Board Associate General Counsel Anne Purcell issues casehandling instructions for regional office employees handling immigration issues in unfair labor practice compliance proceedings.
May 11, 2012
by Michael Rose
Companies under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection often find
themselves at odds with unions representing their workers, who want
to make sure employees don't get short shrift as an employer
reorganizes to gain financial solvency. This interplay was recently
on full display at two household-name employers currently in
bankruptcy proceedings--providing a good look at the role unions
can play in the face of an employer's financial
difficulties.
May 9, 2012
by Louis C. LaBrecque
Everyone agrees the Postal Service is in serious financial trouble, but there's very little agreement on how to go about saving it.
May 8, 2012
by Lydell C. Bridgeford
John
Piatt , a director of equal employment opportunity at the Biddle
Consulting Group, isn't convinced that the Office of Federal
Contract Compliance Programs is finished with efforts to...
May 3, 2012
by Robert Combs
Three factors in the collective bargaining atmosphere have created a kind of “perfect storm” that kept wage increases at levels lower than we’ve ever seen in 2011, and perhaps lower than we’ll see again for some time.
April 27, 2012
by Michael Rose
Congressional wrangling over the
National Labor Relations Board was back in the news this week, as
the Senate voted not to advance debate on a resolution disapproving
of the agency's proposed rule that would speed up the
representation election process, which is scheduled to take effect
April 30.
April 18, 2012
by Robert Combs
How drastically did employers put the brakes on first-year wage increases last year? Consider this: Among the nearly 1,000 contracts we added to our database for 2011, 41 percent called for a first-year wage freeze, up from 7 percent just three years earlier.
April 16, 2012
by Laura D. Francis
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services already is hard at work on its Entrepreneurs in Residence initiative and has announced the members of its EIR Tactical Team. The team is working to streamline the immigration process for foreign entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's prosecutorial discretion pilot program moves to seven additional cities: Detroit; New Orleans; Orlando, Fla.; Seattle; New York; San Francisco; and Los Angeles.
April 13, 2012
by Michael Rose
With the announcement this week that Rick Santorum was dropping
out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, all
eyes are turning to the general election fight between President
Obama and Mitt Romney - and the super PACs that are supporting each
of them. But what may have gone less noticed this week was that the
AFL-CIO officially unveiled a super PAC of its own.
April 11, 2012
by Robert Combs
In the three years since the 2008 financial collapse, there were 395 contracts calling for wage changes of zero percent or lower. That’s more than 10 times as many contracts as there were in the three years leading up to it.