Some of my clients want to get rid of the union that represents their employees. They believe that if they close their company and reopen under another name, perhaps in a different location, that the union will no longer represent their employees. I have to tell them that they are wrong. According to a public…

Plant shutdowns and relocations for the sole purpose of avoiding unionization are called “runaway shops” by unions. As you can imagine, the National Labor Relations Board has developed specific remedies to penalize companies that engage in this tactic. The Board has ordered a runaway employer to offer its employees either: 1) payment of moving expenses…