Victor and Josephine Laracca owned and operated a Foodtown supermarket for ten years. Foodtown employees were represented by the UFCW. Shortly after Foodtown closed, Laracca’s son Roberto opened a supermarket named Fantastic a few miles from the shuttered Foodtown. While Roberto is sole owner of Fantastic, a $400,000 loan was guaranteed by Victor and Josephine…

There has recently been a push to lift the 40-year old ban on oil exports. Several economists believe that pushing domestic crude oil into the world market will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, contribute tens of billions of Gross Domestic Product dollars, put downward pressure on domestic fuel prices, and provide our allies…

A hospital informed two nurses that a peer review committee had reviewed cases in which they may have “exhibited unprofessional conduct.” The employees’ request for union representation at follow-up meetings was denied. If those follow-up meetings determined that unprofessional conduct occurred, the hospital was required, by state statute, to report such conduct to the state…

The former head of a Michigan construction union was recently charged with extorting union business agents and other employees to each pay $5,000 of their salaries per year into his personal “Slate Fund.” The fund was to be used for union election campaign expenses. But, and stop me if you’ve heard this one before, the…

A union that had sought to organize a casino for years took its efforts to a new level when it projected a three-story image onto the wall of the casino. Concerned that the light was a safety hazard that could blind motorists, the casino called the police who told the union to shut off the…

By now, most companies know that the National Labor Relations Board frowns upon mandatory arbitration agreements, even voluntarily entered into ones, and now even ones that permit employees to file charges with the Board. Specifically, an Administrative Law Judge found that the company acted unlawfully in making it “reasonably clear” that individual employees could file…