Thanks to Monster.com for quoting me in their latest article! What Employers Can Learn From 2023’s Labor Strikes March 13, 2024 The number of striking workers more than doubled in 2023 with high-profile walkouts seen across industries from healthcare to manufacturing to education and more. Top demands from picket lines included better pay, increased staffing, and improved [...]
Thanks to the Chicago Bar Association & Max Barack for hosting me on their TV show Chicago Talks You & the Law on 2/20/24! Max interviewed my colleague & friend, Helen Bloch, & I for 25 minutes on New Labor & Employment Laws and Rules to know for 2024. The program is below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csKpXZXIs5U&t=4s [...]
Congratulations to the excellent employees & management of my client, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op, for ratifying its first collective bargaining agreement with its new labor union the Dill Pickle Food Co-op Workers’ Union (DPFCWU). This is a great example of what positive & cooperative (no pun intended) labor relations can accomplish. Please see the below [...]
My client, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op (DPFC), is pleased to announce that their former labor union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was decertified on 12/20/22. The IWW was replaced with the DPFC's own employees’ union, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op Workers Union. The new Union & DPFC are excited and pleased that employees chose to go [...]
The Food Institute Your Single Source for Food Industry News, Data and Trends Since 1928 Experts Predict ‘Striketober’ to Remember MARCY KREITER | SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 Slightly more than a month before the mid-term elections, thousands of U.S. workers are threatening to turn October into “Striketober,” with restaurant workers at the forefront of the bid to increase [...]
