Labor and Employment Law
As a fan of professional basketball, football and baseball, especially Chicago's teams, I often find valuable business lessons in analogizing labor and employment law related issues to those in sports (chess too for that matter). These analogies include the triangle offense/defense (basketball), the 46 defense (football) or what to say or not to say to [...]
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 [...]
