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Illinois’ Aims to Silence Employers --- Banning of Mandatory Captive Audience Meetings

On May 26, 2024, the Illinois Legislature passed Senate Bill 3649 – titled the “Worker Freedom of Speech Act.” The legislation prohibits virtually all Illinois employers from discharging or disciplining any employee, or from...more

Another Year, Another Kerplunk! Union Membership Rates Drop to an ALL TIME Low (Again)

2023 is now “in the books” and organized labor is likely seething at seeing their numbers drop -- once again. Despite the media headlines in 2023 about union organizing drives, strikes and “wins” at the negotiating table for...more

More Legal Mandates & Changes Impacting the U.S. Construction Industry: Department of Labor’s Updated Davis-Bacon & Related Acts...

Hold onto your hard hat! What you thought you knew about federal Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law is changing --- substantially changing decades of well-established rules, precedent and interpretations as to the applicability...more

The Attack on Employer Free Speech Continues to Grow --- More States Enact Laws to Muzzle Employers on Educating their Employees...

Entering 2023, the union membership rate dropped to a new historic low of 10.1%. Among private sector workers, the numbers were even more bleak for unions: just 6% of the overall private sector workforce is now unionized...more

BREAKING NEWS! NLRB Makes It Much Easier For Unions to Represent Employees By Forcing Employers to Recognize A Union Under Certain...

August 25, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just handed big labor a major assist when it comes to union organizing. In Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC and International Brotherhood of Teamsters...more

Illinois Continues to Expand its Prevailing Wage Law: Removing & Disposing of Community “Poop” to a Private “Toilet” is Now...

Yep. You read that right. Not really sure how else to describe this little nugget. As Illinois continues to do all it can to help labor organizations, the latest assist is a real stomach turner. HB2845 amends the IL...more

It’s Now Official --- A Union Worker’s BIPA Claims are Subject to Federal Labor Law Preemption

In a rare win for employers, on March 23, 2023 the Illinois Supreme Court issued its decision in Walton v. Roosevelt University, affirming dismissal of claims brought under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by a...more

Breaking News: Union Membership Rate Drops to Historic Low in 2022

2022 is now “in the books” and organized labor has to be reeling seeing the latest news. Despite all of those sensational headlines involving a few high profile employers facing union organizing drives last year, the union...more

Big Labor Continues to Target the Financial Industry

As labor unions continue to target banks and credit unions – employers that, as mentioned in our previous blog, unions historically avoided – employers in the financial industry must be aware of labor law developments....more

Illinois’ “Workers’ Rights” Amendment: What is it?

Proposed Amendment 1 to the Illinois Constitution (the so-called “Workers’ Rights Amendment”), on the November 2022 ballot, formally reads as follows: Employees shall have the fundamental right to organize and to bargain...more

Bidding On Green Energy Construction Projects? Watch Out For Prevailing Wage and PLA Landmines!

Legislation aimed at expanding green energy construction projects is spreading throughout the United States. With it, prevailing wage mandates and project labor agreements tied to such projects are becoming more common....more

“Treat Employees Like Mushrooms?” – NLRB’s Attack on Employer “Captive Audience Meetings” is Officially On!

Treat ‘em like mushrooms is an expression that is never actually uttered out loud by union organizers, but it’s certainly implied when it comes to organizing a workforce. Keeping the worker in the dark concerning key facts...more

Big Labor is Targeting Banks and Credit Unions??

Although labor unions have historically not targeted banks and credit unions for organizing, desperate times call for desperate measures as union membership continues to fall in the United States with only 6.1% of the...more

EMPLOYERS BEWARE: PRO-UNION PRIORITIES ADVANCE AT THE NLRB

Good, bad or otherwise… no matter your own personal or professional viewpoint, the fact is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is poised to usher in new reforms and implement pro-labor priorities with the intent of...more

AFL-CIO Sues NLRB Seeking To Block 2019 Final Election Rule

Back on December 16, 2019, we reported on the issuance of new regulations by the Trump administration that effectively repealed the 2014 “Quickie Election” Rule issued by the Obama National Labor Relations Board...more

3/10/2020  /  AFL-CIO , NLRB , Union Elections , Unions

NLRB Gives Gift To Employers: Modifies Obama Board’s “Quickie Election” Rule

On December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued notice of new regulations designed to materially change what is commonly referred to as the “Quickie Election” Rule. The new regulations, set to take...more

In Case It Was Ever In Doubt, The Illinois Prevailing Wage Act Now Expressly Adopts UNION SCALE To Establish Prevailing Wage In...

Organized labor wasted no time in securing Governor Pritzker’s signature on legislation that undoubtedly calls for the Illinois prevailing wage rate to fall in lock step with the area union contracts. ...more

2017 Ending With A Bang: Obama Era NLRB “Micro Unit” Ruling Reversed

2017 is coming to an end, and with somewhat of a Bang! for labor relations moving forward under Trump’s NLRB. In a matter involving PCC Structurals, Inc. and the Intern’l Assoc. of Machinists & Aerospace Workers...more

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