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Stephen J. Cabot

Employment ,Labor ,Employee,Labor Union,Strike,Labor Board,Employment Contracts

For forty years, Stephen J. Cabot was one of the foremost labor management relations and employment law attorneys in North America. Having transitioned from the practice of law to full-time consulting, he continues to offer guidance on all facets of labor/management relations to organizations ranging from Fortune 500

Beware of Mandatory Arbitration in card check

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Michael Barone, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, details the chilling scenario that could follow the enactment of the mandatory arbitration portion of the so-called Employment Free Choice Act. The economic implications are massive and global, and Barone urges Americans to resist this legislative gift to Organized Labor.

Big Labor investment in Obama pays off

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Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin documents the brazen political payoffs to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for its $60.7 million efforts to get Barack Obama elected President, including two union-friendly cabinet appointments, a raft of pro-labor executive orders, and the defunding of the Labor Department’s enforcement arm.

How Corporate America can deal with EFCA

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With Congress and the President committed to the urgent enactment of EFCA, employers must act NOW to preempt, defeat, or deflect Big Labor’s impending organizing onslaught. In this must-read IndustryWeek article, Steve Cabot offers a blueprint for implementing an integrated union-free strategy based on cooperation and mutual respect in the workplace.

Unions Benefit from Obama decisions

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This recent article from the Washington Times offers a detailed chronology of the Obama administration’s appreciative response to Organized Labor’s support in the last election. Read this riveting but dispiriting account of the slew of pro-union appointments, policies, and legislation coming out of the White House and Democrat-controlled Congress that has begun to reshape the economic landscape.

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    -- A wave of intrusive new regulations
    -- Pro-union rulings from the NLRB &
    Department of Justice
    -- Sweetheart government deals to
    empower and protect Organized Labor

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According to a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com), while union membership amongst private industry workers is declining, union membership for government employees is dramatically increasing. While 7.2% of private industry workers belong to unions, more than 37% of government workers belong to unions. Since government has become the primary employer of unionized workers, [...]
STICKS & STONES CAN BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT CARELESS EPITHETS ARE SELF-DEFEATING
In politics, there is a great deal of name calling, disparagement of one’s opponents, and assorted calumnies spread through rumor mills. There is also a maxim that “it is easier to attract flies with honey than with vinegar.” Attempting to defame one’s political enemies is a sure sign of desperation that will have a contrary effect [...]
AN OVERLOOKED ELEMENT IN THE GREAT MASS UPSET
According to various polls, most Americans believe that unions have often been an obstacle, standing in the way of American companies being able to compete with foreign-based and non-union companies. One need only look at the sorry state of GM. In addition, Americans have not voiced approval for President Obama’s pro-union activities, such as attempting to [...]

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