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The Employers Group in California analyzes the business impacts of the Employee Free Choice Act, other expected federal legislation, the leadership changes of the National Labor Relations Board and other federal agencies using their decision-making, rule-making and other administrative authority in union-management relations.

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The U.S. Dept. of Labor has delayed the effective date and applicability date of regulations that would have imposed new recordkeeping and filing requirements on unions in their annual financial reports mandated by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. Read more

Union and non-union employers would have a lot to be concerned about if the proposed federal Employee Free Choice Act is enacted, says Marr Jones & Wang partners Patrick Jones and Sarah Wang. Jones and Wang spoke to HEC members on Feb. 3.
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Federal contractors can no longer post a “Beck” notice informing employees that they cannot be required to join, or maintain membership in, a union in order to keep their jobs under an Executive Order issued by President Obama; instead, they will be r Read more

Union membership in the U.S. grew by almost half a million workers in 2008 to 16.1 million, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent, and there were 17.7 million union workers, according to BLS.
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A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court holds that a union local can charge non-union members of a bargaining unit a service fee which includes a payment to the local’s national union that covers some litigation activities that directly benefit other union locals or the national itself.
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The Democratic Party victories in capturing the White House and seats in both the U.S. Read more

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards has published its final rule that requires unions to provide more reporting about finances held in union trusts. According to the DOL, the rule is intended to give union members more meaningful information about union finances and expenditures.
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The gradual decline in union membership (about 4.2 percent from 1995 to 2007), despite the 17 percent growth in employment during the same period, have prompted union organizations to consider union mergers as a strategy for improving their bargaining power, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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A divided Third Circuit holds that a union which tracked down employees during an organizing campaign by taking down car license numbers in the employee parking lot and using the numbers to search for vehicle ownership and home addresses (“tagging”) violated the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994. Read more

The Employee Free Choice Act currently pending before Congress poses a significant threat to union-free employers, and companies must mobilize to fight the efforts to make this bill law, says Pepper Hamilton LLP.
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Workers who are not in a union, but favor one, differ in profound ways from those who would rather not join, according to a study by Kenexa Research Institute. KRI says these differences can help organizations determine where to intervene to avoid union involvement.
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A company which received a letter from the Social Security Administration indicating that 48 employees did not match the information in SSA’s database did not have just cause to terminate 33 of the workers when they did not timely comply with the company’s requirement to get new social security cards, the Ninth Circuit hol Read more

Unions are turning their attention and resources to the upcoming fall elections and a Congress controlled by Democrats to advance their agenda for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act—eliminating secret ballot elections—according to the Jackson Lewis law firm. Read more