With the election of Donald Trump to become the 47th President of the United States, both employers and unions should expect yet another pendulum swing in labor law. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, returning guest Jon Hyman , a shareholder with Wickens Herzer Panza shares some insights as to what we might see coming in 2025. Related Links: * Jon Hyman’s Ohio Employer Law Blog * Jon Hyman on LinkedIn.com * The Norah and Dad Show * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 18: Guest—The 'Master of Work...
Nov 08, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the November 5th elections right around the corner, employers and unions alike are girding themselves for what could be a very consequential outcome. In this, the 150th episode of Labor Relations Radio, labor attorney and returning guest Cary Burke joins host Peter List to discuss Elon Musk’s recent victory at the Fifth Circuit over an old tweet, as well as potential labor relations outcomes if Kamala Harris or Donald Trump win the presidency. Other Labor Relations Episodes with Cary Burke:...
Nov 01, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast “ It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self- organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their...
Oct 15, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Returning guest Kim Kavin, a freelance writer, editor and co-founder of Fight for Freelancers has a new Substack: FreelanceBusting.com . In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Kim Kavin joins host Peter List to discuss where the battle against the freelance busters stands during this election cycle. Be sure to subscribe to Kim’s substack. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit laborunionnews.substack.com/subscribe...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is Sean O’Brien, the President of the International Brotherhood Teamsters, a “scab” for not endorsing Kamala Harris? Joe Brock is president of Reliant Labor Consultants and a former local president of a large Teamsters local. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Joe returns to the podcast to explain why he believes Sean O’Brien has betrayed union principles by allowing the Teamsters’ non-endorsement. Related: * Labor Relations Radio, E92—Former Teamster leader-turned-consultant Joe Brock on...
Sep 26, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Last Friday, the Biden-Harris administration—“the most pro-union administration in American history”—issued an Executive Order that overwhelmingly gives unions and unionized employers advantages in obtaining federal work. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, returning guest Ben Brubeck, vice president of regulatory, labor and state affairs for the Associated Builders & Contractors explains how this “gift to unions is discouraging for the overwhelming majority of the U.S. construction indust...
Sep 10, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Did you know that more than 95 percent of unionized private-sector employees have never voted to be unionized? As Americans, every two, four, or six years, we head to polls to cast our ballots for who we want to represent us. For unionized workers in the private sector, the vast majority never voted to unionize. According to a new study [ in PDF ] by the Institute for the American Worker (I4AW) , 95 percent of private sector union workers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) are represe...
Sep 04, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. Alex MacDonald , from the Workplace Policy Institute , returns to Labor Relations Radio to discuss the filing of an amicus brief (for a writ of certiorari ) with the U.S. Supreme Court for the Court to clarify a prior decision from 1984 that, if successful, could weaken a new form of "exclusive representation" for unions. Related: * An Amicus Brief Was Just Filed With The Supreme Court Asking The Court To Hear The Issue Of Exclusi...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent across various industries, one industry that is not often included in the AI discussion in the construction industry. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Patrick Scarpati, Director of Construction Technology and Innovation for the Associated Builders and Contractors , joins host Peter List to discuss ABC’s new AI Resource Guide , the current uses of AI, as well as where AI may be headed. As an added bonus: The outro for this episode wa...
Aug 08, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Only months after the State of California required fast-food operators to raise the minimum wage from $16 to $20 per hour, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) wants the minimum wage raised again. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Tom Manzo , President of the California Business & Industrial Alliance joins host Peter List to discuss how unions are negatively impacting the state and driving businesses out. * California fast-food workers want another minimum wage increase * Cal...
Aug 03, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Within three weeks earlier this Spring, employees of a Trader Joe’s store in Chicago turned around an ambush election by Trader Joe’s United. They did so without help from their employer, and to the shock and dismay of the union’s leaders. Long-time Trader Joe’s employees, Nikki and Jose, explain what happened before and during the short window before their NLRB election. Related: * Labor Relations Radio, E102—Unionized Trader Joe's Employees Explain the Efforts to Decertify Trader Joe's United ...
Aug 01, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Returning guest Nick Kalm , CEO of Reputation Partners , rejoins the podcast to discuss the month’s political events and try to figure out which team has the advantage going into November. Prior Labor Relations Radio Episodes with Nick Kalm: * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 9—Reputation Partners' CEO Nick Kalm On Attacks On Company Brands * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 44—Guest Nick Kalm On Why The Mid-Term's 'Red Wave' Was Barely A Ripple * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 45—Guests Nick Kalm and Haley Har...
Jul 25, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast As unions have become more reliant on government largesse over the last few decades, putting their future fortunes into the hands of the government, the question of whether the Constitution’s First Amendment and its Freedom of Association apply to the concept of Exclusive Representation is called into question. In this episode, labor attorney Alex MacDonald , from Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute shares some of the details of his paper: Political Unions, Free Speech, and the Death of Volunta...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since October 7th, there has been a tremendous and overt rise of anti-semitism on college campuses across the U.S. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Glenn Taubman from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation joins host Peter List to share what the Foundation is doing to assist and protect grad students, as well as others, against the onslaught of antisemitism in their unions. Related: * To contact the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, go here . * U.S. House Com...
Jul 16, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trigger Warning: This episode discusses political issues currently going on in the U.S. and the State of California If political topics trigger you, please do not listen to this episode. With political issues occupying the national conversation since President Joe Biden’s debate debacle, Will Swaim , president of the California Policy Center and co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast, joins host Peter List to discuss current affairs and the potential replacement of Joe Biden ...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast With last week’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 40-year precedent called the Chevron Doctrine (or Deference). This decision may have significant impact concerning how the National Labor Relations Board (and other federal agencies) conduct themselves moving forward. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, labor attorney Jim Paretti, Jr. , a shareholder with the law firm Littler Mendelson , returns to the podcast to discuss what the revers...
Jul 03, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Megann McManus (bio here ) is a full-service traditional labor attorney at the law firm Husch Blackwell . Before becoming a lawyer, Megann majored in theatre and then worked for Actors’ Equity Association as a director in the human resources department. There, she gained a unique and valuable perspective as a manager for a labor union, and she quickly realized that the collective bargaining and contract management process happening behind the scenes was even more interesting than the drama on th...
Jul 01, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Constitutional attorney Jeffrey Schwab from the Liberty Justice Center joins Labor Relations Radio to discuss a newly-filed case that, if successful, may open governments up to being “joint employers” with certain private-sector employers. Schwab, who is not a labor attorney, served as counsel for Mark Janus in Janus v. AFSCME , the landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court found that public employees could not be compelled to pay money to a union without their consent. In this most...
May 28, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Internationally recognized leadership consultant and CEO of the Parone Group , Irma Parone, joins the podcast to discuss her problem-solving techniques, as well as her book WINX: The Problem-Solving Model to Win Exponentially with Customers, Employees, & Your Bottom Line and her new book WINX for Employees: The Problem-Solving Model to Unlock Workplace Success . * To read more about Ms. Parone, view her bio here , or follow her on LinkedIn here . * To contact Ms. Parone, visit the Parone Group w...
May 24, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Cary Burke , a labor attorney with Seyfarth Shaw returns to discuss a number of topics, including a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge’s recent decision that a manager visiting an employee’s LinkedIn profile was ‘surveillance,’ the potential for the NLRB to issue a Cemex Bargaining Order at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama, as well as a number of other potential NLRB actions we might expect in the months ahead. Follow Cary Burke on Li...
May 22, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recently, an administrative law judge (ALJ) ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassey’s answers to interview questions violated the National Labor Relations Act. Unless the ALJ's decision regarding Jassey's seemingly innocuous statements made during various interviews in 2022 (included in this episode) is overturned, which is unlikely to happen soon, all employers' speech during union-organizing campaigns may be significantly impacted. [See the full ALJ decision here .] In this joint episode of Labor Re...
May 16, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast With employee engagement the lowest it’s been in 11 years, Dr. Fiona Jamison , CEO of Spring International , joins Labor Relations Radio host Peter List to discuss the “seismic shift” in employee expectations that has occurred over the past several years and how employers can adapt. Fiona’s company, Spring International, is a women-owned, full-service, custom research and consulting firm located in suburban Philadelphia, PA. Across all research (policy, customer, and employee) programs, Spring h...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast According to Gallup , employee engagement is at its lowest point in 11 years . The term ‘Employee Engagement’ has been around since 1990 . Since then, corporate America has spent millions (billions?) of dollars investing in the “engagement industry”—polls, seminars, consultants and training. Why, then, is engagement still so low? What Is Employee Engagement? “ Employee engagement,” according to one definition , “is a concept in human resources that refers to the degree to which employees are inv...
May 06, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast More than 20 years ago, Atlas Container was the cover story of an Inc. magazine article entitled, The Power of Listening (registration required). In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, host Peter List is joined by Paul Centenari, CEO of Atlas Container, a corrugated box manufacturer that practices Open Book Management (OBM). In this episode, Paul shares his views on what makes OBM a successful way to manage a business, as well as some of the challenges. Related: The Power of Listening — How d...
May 02, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast David R. Osborne , Senior Fellow for Labor Policy with the Commonwealth Foundation , returns to Labor Relations Radio to discuss his new podcast, Disunion: The Government Union Report , government unions, as well as how unions are working around the Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision. Read more about the Commonwealth Foundation here . Listen to David’s podcast Disunion: Government Union Report : * On Spotify * On YouTube For all prior episodes of Labor Relations Radio, go here . LaborUnionNews....
Apr 19, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Nicole Solas, a stay-at-home mom, was enrolling her child into kindergarten, she asked a few too many questions about what was going to be taught to her child. The lack of answers, ultimately, led to public-records requests, which then turned into a lawsuit by the teachers’ union. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Ms. Solas joins host Peter List to discuss what led to the lawsuit against her, and the three-year saga that she has endured. In addition to being a stay-at-home mon, Ms. ...
Apr 17, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast According to a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) press release , “during the first six months of Fiscal Year 2024 (October 1–March 31), union election petitions filed at NLRB field offices rose 35% over the same period in Fiscal Year 2023.” In this episode, Labor Relations Institute ’s Michael VanDervort joins host Peter List to discuss the union organizing trends, as well as some of the current labor relations topics of the day. Related links: * The LRI Labor Libraries * LRI Newsletter For ...
Apr 11, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) discusses his recently-introduced bill, the Start Applying Labor Transparency (SALT) Act , legislation aimed at exposing “salting,” a common union organizing tactic where individuals are paid by labor unions to infiltrate companies to unionize employers from within. Although this nefarious tactic—which relies on deceiving employers and, more importantly, employees —has been around for a long time, in recent years, union “...
Apr 10, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast By Peter List, Editor | April 6, 2024 Last week, Mike Elk, a pro-union writer, who owns a website called PayDay Report, did a hit piece on me entitled “ Anti-UAW Union Buster Secretly Behind Hit Labor News Site .” Here is my response. * Perhaps, we owe you an explanation... * Union Watchdog: UAW Leaders Bask In Puerto Rico As Members Get Laid Off * Congress Should Investigate UAW's Neutrality Agreement & Works Council Scam At VW * After Volkswagen Loss, UAW Bosses Turn To Bovine Excrement Manufa...
Apr 06, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever wondered why, on the topic of immigration, unions have gone from protectionism to tacitly supporting so-called “open borders?” In the episode of Labor Relations Radio, Michael Watson , Research Director for the Capital Research Center shares what can be considered an ‘ origin story ’ on how unions went from favoring tighter restrictions on immigration to almost no restrictions at all today. Check out Michael Watson’s work at the Capitol Research Center: * The Turn at the Millennium...
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