Labor and Employment Law
On Tuesday, April 25 from 10 A.M.-12 P.M., I'll be presenting a labor and employment law seminar at the University of Illinois Chicago's Center for Urban Business (CUB) and Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The address is 601 S. Morgan Street (Harrison and Morgan Street intersection), conference room #2350 UH (23rd floor of University Hall; [...]
On 12/8/05, Dr. Tom Rogers and Jim Velos of The Rogers Group, interviewed me on their Voice America Business channel program: Business Dis-eases: Cure Them or Die. The direct link to the interview is here. This post summarizes the 45 minute interview. I’ve also added comments not included in the interview due to time constraints. [...]
On 12/8/05, Dr. Tom Rogers and Jim Velos of The Rogers Group interviewed me on their Voice America Business channel program Business Dis-eases: Cure Them or Die. The direct link for the interview is here. The website URL for Voice America’s Business channel is business.voiceamerica.com. For 45 minutes, the duration of the interview, we examined [...]
My final post in this series addresses the demise of the labor movement in America. On July 25, during the first day of the AFL-CIO’s 50th anniversary convention and elections in Chicago, it was announced that the SEIU and Teamsters made good on their threat to leave the AFL-CIO and start their own federation. I [...]
In November 2004, the 1.8 million member SEIU, released its plan to reignite the U.S. labor movement and begin a global movement. The plan is called Unite to Win. The Unite to Win plan is a ten point plan to revamp the AFL-CIO into a leaner labor organizing force. The first point, and perhaps the [...]
