We Beat Them @ Arbitration, the NLRB & Unemployment Comp. Board of Review "Powerful" is how the Chicago Tribune describes the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 150 (4/24/15). They have their own in-house legal staff. They're big labor. A year ago, my client AMS Earth Movers & I beat IUOE Local 150 of [...]
Thanks to reporter Heather Huhman for extensively quoting me in her 12/10/14 Entrepreneur.com article "Is Your Office in Need of Guidelines for Wearables?" The article is here (my contributions are in blue). Thanks also to Mike Bankhead for quoting me in his 12/12/14 article "The Force Awakens II: HR in 2015" for people G2 Human [...]
Here's the materials from my May 2014 "Sink or Swim With Social Media: Legal Workplace Issues" presentation for Assurance University. It's a 56-slide PowerPoint analyzing court & regulatory agency rulings concerning who owns work-related accounts & content, & what employers can & should do to manager their employee & business' social media activities. Unfortunately, the [...]
Here's my PowerPoint presentation from my 12/19/13 webinar on The Future of Labor Unions in the Private Sector What you Need to Know About Micro-Unions, Work Centers and Right-to-Work Laws. It's 32 slides & available here as a PDF. I'll be doing more presentations for Avant Resources, City of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs, Assurance University, Financial Poise [...]
Generally, a lawsuit is the worst way to resolve a labor dispute. But sometimes, it could be the only & best way. Case in point, recently I helped a client resolve a difficult union dispute by convincing them that getting sued by their labor union would work to their advantage. For many reasons, I won’t [...]
