Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues With more than 150 large labor contracts set to expire this year —affecting more than 1.6 million workers—along with hundreds of newly-unionized employers heading to the bargaining table amidst a labor shortage—it is likely that the nation will see more strikes in 2023 than it has in years. “A union’s bargaining power depends upon three main elements: the right to strike, the ability to strike effectively, and the company’s ability...
Feb 14, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. “One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.” — Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor Terry Bowman is a full-time auto worker and worker-freedom advocate, as well as a leading voice for Right-to-Work laws. As a vocal...
Feb 10, 2023•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. If you go onto the United States Postal Service’s website to buy some stamps (or order a ‘free’ COVID test), when you go to check out, and enter all your personal information (name, address, telephone number, etc.), you may find some curious fine print in the USPS’ Privacy Act Statement . [See screenshots below.] We do not disclose your information to third parties without your consent, except to act on your behalf or request, or ...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. Who will replace U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh? As President Biden gave his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, one individual was conspicuously absent—U.S. Labor Secretary (and “ designated survivor ”) Marty Walsh. Walsh is reportedly going to be leaving the Biden administration to join the ‘One Percent’ by taking a $3 million per year job as the Executive Director of the National Hockey League’s Players Association. ...
Feb 08, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues Stephen Enright (bio here ) is a successful human resources consultant, executive, and HR leader, with a solid record of leading HR in healthcare, transportation, and high tech industries. He has managed the Human Resources function in both union and non-unionized environments, from the manager, director, as well as CHRO levels, and has watched the HR function evolve over the years. Stephen believes in the ‘old school’ approach tha...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this first episode of ‘Between the Lines,’ Labor Relations Radio host Peter List covers some of the important labor union news stories of the week and provides perspective. Articles covered in this episode: * 1.6 million workers will see their contracts expire this year. Will 2023 be the 'Year of the Strike?' * UAW Strikers Told They Could Be Permanently Replaced If Latest CNH Deal Was Rejected * On The Eve Of UAW Strike Vote, Caterpillar Reminds Workers What A Strike May Cost Them * UC Inten...
Feb 01, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. Since the first Starbucks cafe unionized in Buffalo, New York in 2021 much of the media coverage has portrayed the campaign to unionize Starbucks as a mostly organic effort. Other than passing mentions that the Starbucks Workers United is an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), with the exception of a few , most mainstream media journalists who cover labor unions have not investigation, nor reported, on t...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. Last week’s strike in New York City, where 7,000 nurses walked off their job over staffing and pay, was symbolic of a much larger issue facing the U.S. healthcare system and even other countries like England . Though it remains to be seen—and even doubted by some—whether the strike will significantly address the nurses’ concerns, the publicity around the strike raised awareness of the problems that healthcare professionals have be...
Jan 19, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio. Dr. Keith Courville , Ed.S., Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana (A+PEL) . In existence since the mid-1980s, A+PEL is not a teachers’ union. Rather, it is a non-partisan, non-profit member organization that serves educators in the State of Louisiana. A+PEL is, according to its website , “committed to supporting, empowering, and encouraging Louisiana educators throughout their entire careers by providin...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your friends and colleagues With the U.S. Department of Labor’s public comment period on the DOL’s proposed rule on independent contractors now closed, Kim Kavin, a returning guest, freelance writer and co-founder of Fight for Freelancers USA , provides an update on the union-backed governments’ efforts to kill the gig economy. Related: * Public Comment to the DOL from Fight For Freelancers USA * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 39—Guest Kim Kavin on th...
Dec 21, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your friends and colleagues. The Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) is a national nonprofit organization that offers educational materials and a free membership program to current and former public-sector employees. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, AFFT’s CEO, Elisabeth Messenger , joins host Peter List to discuss union pension bailouts, public sector unionism and the U.S. Post Office’s privacy policy that may be letting unions’ obtain U...
Dec 16, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The continuing clamor for extension of state regulatory powers under the guise of reform and deliverance from evil can but lead into greater confusion and more hopeless entanglements.” — Samuel Gompers, 1923 With President Biden and Congress imposing labor contracts on rail workers last week, we saw people who normally demand government intervention into the economy decrying government intervention; while, at the same time, people normally opposed to government intervention in the free market a...
Dec 04, 2022•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your friends and colleagues. On this episode of Labor Relations Radio, following a brief update on President Biden’s request for Congress to impose contracts on the railroad workers who rejected the Biden-brokered deal, journalist Kerry Picket joins host Peter List to talk about the state of journalism, politics, and unions. Kerry Picket is a senior congressional reporter for The Washington Times and fill-in radio host at SiriusXM Patriot 125. She...
Nov 29, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your friends and colleagues. There is a debate about today’s educational system and the role teachers’ unions play in either preparing students to become productive citizens, or whether they are merely “ indoctrinating ” students. Last week, for example, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated in an interview that he believed that Randi Weingarten , the head of the American Federation of Teachers, is the world’s “most dangerous person.” “f yo...
Nov 28, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share Labor Relations Radio with your friends and colleagues. To older managers and business owners (aka ‘ bOoMeRs ’), managing the ‘ Gen Z ’ workforce can be a perplexing issue. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, host Peter List and returning guest Reputation Partners ’ Nick Kalm , along with Haley Hartmann work through the stereotypes and discuss some of the uniqueness in working with Gen Z workers. Related: * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 44—Guest Nick Kalm On Why The Mid-Term's 'Red Wave...
Nov 22, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast With several election outcomes and the balance of power in Washington still to be decided—with the exception of Florida—the Republicans’ expected “red wave” in Tuesday’s mid-term elections failed to materialize. Why? In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Nick Kalm , the CEO of Reputation Partners —a previous guest on the podcast—joins host Peter List to discuss the elections and what caused the GOP to perform so poorly. Related: * AFL-CIO’s Shuler: Labor’s historic political effort paid off,...
Nov 10, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, F. Vincent Vernuccio , President and Co-Founder of the Institute for the American Worker , returns to Labor Relations Radio to discuss the Department of Labor’s proposal to eliminate independent contractors , the National Labor Relations Board’s efforts to classify franchises and their franchisees as “ joint employers ,” as well as a host of other issues. Related: * The Institute for the American Worker’s Regulation Watch * The Hill: A fearful October for entrepreneurs * Voters ...
Nov 08, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan McCrory spent 37 years with AT&T and rose through the ranks of the Communications Workers of America to become a local president. As a member of the Writers Union, Mr. McCrory published ‘ Capitalism Killed The Middle Class ’ and is currently working on his next book ‘Rebuilding Unions.’ In additional to his writing, according to his bio , Mr. McCrory “has written for the glamorous telecom industry, represented actor Cliff Robertson as a Hollywood publicist, cranked out political propaganda a...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. “My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb Recently, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard several cases involving unions forging the signatures of employees. Surprisingly, “the three-judge panel managed to acknowledge the membership cards in question were forged while simultaneously concluding a union can’t be held responsible for dues illegally take...
Oct 26, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Phil Wilson is President and General Counsel of the Labor Relations Institute and is a national expert on labor relations and creating positive workplaces. He is regularly featured in the business media including Fox Business News, Bloomberg News, HR Magazine, and the New York Times. Wilson is a highly regarded keynote speaker, an adjunct professor at Northeastern State University, and the author of numerous books and articles on labor relations, union corruption and creating a positive workplac...
Oct 20, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Returning guest Kim Kavin is a full-time, freelance journalist and one of the co-founders of Fight for Freelancers USA . Albeit reluctantly, Ms. Kavin is one of the nation’s most knowledgeable individuals on how union-backed politicians and agency bureaucrats are attempting to outlaw independent contracting through legislative and regulatory fiat. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Ms. Kavin joins host Peter List to discuss and break down the Department of Labor’s recently announced Propo...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gabriella Hoffman is media strategist, consultant, and award-winning outdoor writer based in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. Ms. Hoffman specializes in social media management, strategic communications, branding, public relations, marketing, digital strategies, speaking/trainings, basic photography and videography services. As a full-time freelancer or “gig worker,” Gabriella Hoffman is an independent contractor who has also written and commented extensively on how unions—through their allies i...
Oct 17, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the fast-paced arrival of innovative and transformative technologies, will workers whose jobs are most likely to be disrupted have the skills and training required for the new jobs being created? — Emma Coalition Guest Michael Lotito is a shareholder with the law firm Littler Mendelson, and is one of the premier labor attorneys in the nation. As importantly, Mr. Lotito is one of the nation’s thought leaders on workplace policy and, as such, is also co-chair of Littler’s Workplace Policy Ins...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this podcast with your colleagues. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Jon Hyman—one of the most well-known and prolific employee and labor law writers on the internet, as well as shareholder and director at Wickens Herzer Panza , in Avon, Ohio—joins host Peter List to discuss Weingarten Rights. Weingarten Rights are a little known or understood concept that currently only apply to unionized workplaces. However, Weingarten Rights are very likely to be returning to the non-union workp...
Sep 20, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast From AB5 to AB257, California is the petri dish of experiments that are often imposed on the rest of the nation. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, former state worker, SEIU local officer, and current “troublemaker” Linda “Pinky” Martinez shares her views of how the state has devolved, its politics, current issues, and her lingering optimism that the state can turn itself around. Related: * Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 34—CPC's Lance Christensen on California's FAST Act and other Golden Sta...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of LaborUnionNews.com's Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. In this Labor Day Weekend episode of Labor Relations Radio, Lance Christensen Vice President, Education Policy & Government Affairs of the California Policy Center rejoins host Peter List to discuss the FAST Act (AB257)—a bill that will fundamentally transform the fast-food industry in California (and perhaps elsewhere)—the California legislature’s hypocritical failure to allow its staffers to unionize, as wel...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of LaborUnionNews.com's Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act ( aka the PRO Act ) is the most significant rewrite of American labor law in 75 years. It has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives (twice) and, now, unions are pushing for the U.S. Senate to vote on the bill. On this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Ben Brubeck, Vice President of Regulatory, Labor and State affairs for the Associated Builders and Contractor...
Aug 22, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share this episode of Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. Attorney Wally Zimolong has been described by the American Federation of Teachers as “a destructive force” due to his pro bono assistance to a group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania who opposed unionization of graduate students. LaborUnionNews.com's Labor Relations Radio is a subscriber-supported publication. To support our work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. As a traditional labor and employment attor...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Background. In early April, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo indicating that “she will ask the Board to find mandatory meetings in which employees are forced to listen to employer speech concerning the exercise of their statutory labor rights, including captive audience meetings, a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).” Less than a week later, GC Abruzzo filed a brief in a case called Cemex, in which Abruzzo “seeks to (1) ban so...
Aug 01, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Share LaborUnionNews.com's Labor Relations Radio with your colleagues. Despite an average win rate of more than two-thirds of all NLRB-conducted secret-ballot elections since the mid-2000s, unions and their allies continue try to effectively eliminate workers’ right to vote in secret-ballot elections, as well as tilt the playing field to unions. Despite their repeated efforts over the last 15 years to legislatively institute the flawed process of unionization called “card check,” unions have, th...
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