While most Americans were preparing for their Thanksgiving Feast, President Obama showed his thanks last week to Big Labor and its hundreds of millions in campaign contributions by ignominiously allowing his recently confirmed Labor Secretary to move forward his DOL’s long pending radical proposal to dramatically change the decades old “Persuader Regulations”. The Proposed
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Court of Appeals Rules NLRB Notice Posting Violates Employer Free Speech Rights
By Epstein Becker Green on
By Adam C. Abrahms and Steven M. Swirsky
In another major defeat for President Obama’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found that the Board lacked the authority to issue a 2011 rule which would have required all employers covered by the…
Executive Privilege (a new Twinkie Defense?): What Executives Can and Should Say About Unions
By Adam C. Abrahms on
In the past week media reports abound regarding a controversial allegedly “anti-union” statement made by a high level executive associated with the iconic snack cake Twinkies. As widely reported late last year, the original Twinkie maker, Hostess Brands, Inc., was forced to close, liquidate and lay off its entire unionized workforce, publicly blaming the recalcitrance…