Labor & Employment Law & Human Resources Counseling on Behalf of Management

New Chuck Krugel Radio Interview on Employee Free Choice Act 4/1/09

This coming Wednesday, April 1, 10 AM-11 AM (CST), Steve Swirsky, Partner, Epstein, Becker & Green in NYC, & I will be the featured guests on Voice America’s program “Return on Human Capital.”  The subject of our live interview will be the Employee Free Choice Act & other proposed “worker freedom acts”.  If any of [...]

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)
http://progressillinois.com/2009/2/26/republic-windows-workers-back-to-work (Progress [...]

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 consensus is [...]

Chuck Krugel: Interviewed for & Quoted in Law360.com 9/2008 Article

In Law360.com’s (The Newswire for Business Lawyers) September 5, 2008, article “Work E-Mails: The New Smoking Guns” by Christine Caulfield, I was interviewed for and quoted in Christine’s article concerning workplace emails in the aftermath of two Credit Suisse brokers charged with conspiring to deceive investors via e-mail.  If you can’t access the article via [...]

June 20, 2008, Labor & Employment Law Seminar at Chicago’s City Hall

On June 20, 2008, I gave my 4th seminar in the last 2 years for the City of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Licensing.  Like my prior seminars for them, it focused on labor and employment law for small and medium sized businesses (2-1,000 employees).  The handout for this, which reflects 2008 legal changes, [...]

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