Chicago’s Republic Windows to Reopen With New Owners Which the Labor Union Helped to Obtain
Interesting items about Republic Windows & Doors based in Chicago’s Goose Island neighborhood. The buyout was just announced. The two articles below report the buyout and summarize some of what led to that. My additional comments also summarize the dispute, and discuss today’s announced buyout’s broader implications for labor management relations: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33130 (Crain’s Chicago/AP article) [...]
2/17/09 Discussion With U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam (R, 6th Dist., IL) Regarding the Employee Free Choice Act
Today, about 25 business people & I attended a roundtable discussion with U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL, 6th District, O’Hare Suburbs; DuPage County) regarding the increasingly controversial Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). It was a fantastic & frank forum. The animus against this act was palpable in the room; as was Congressman Roskam’s. The general [...]
2 New Chuck Krugel Law Seminars in 2/09
On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, from 2PM-4PM, Joshua Betancourt with UBS Financial Services is sponsoring a business law seminar centered on business asset protection. This includes protecting intellectual property from competitors & current & former employees, employment agreements including non-competes, non-disclosures, severance, hiring & separation. Obviously, I’ll be speaking about the labor & employment law [...]
My New LinkedIn Group About Labor & Employment Law & Human Resources Practices for Companies
Today, I created a brand new LinkedIn group, Charles Krugel’s Labor & Employment Law & Human Resources Practice Group. The concept is simple, a free and open discussion of labor & employment law & human resources issues among businesses, practitioners & professionals. The usual disclaimer that legal advice & counsel is not offered via the [...]
New People @ Work Photos-#13 & #14 in this Series
With these photos it’s real people at work. No generic and fake photos of models dressed as people working that a lot of brochures and websites use. You can enlarge either image by clicking on it. The first photo is a restored version of my great-great grandfather Meyer Levinson in front of his Chicago Maxwell [...]
