Current Employment

You can’t get away from it. The thing is everywhere. Everyone is talking about the Employee Free Choice Act, and while you smile and nod and raise your eyebrows a little, you have no idea what they’re talking about.

We’re here to help. Here’s CE’s official explanation of EFCA – or “card check”, or whatever you want to call it – and why you should care.

I know, I know. Everyone’s talking about D.C. v. Heller, the Second Amendment bombshell of a cert. grant. Believe me, the D.C. Circuit version, Parker, was my life for 3 months of moot courtness this fall. I’m interested.
But if you want to talk guns, you’re in the wrong place – unless it’s a postal service [...]

The NLRB has limited the National Labor Relations Act’s protections to only those job applicants who really want jobs they apply for. This will finally cut out all those independently wealthy jerks who apply for jobs and then turn them down just for laughs.
In Toering Electric Co., 351 NLRB No. 18, the Board said that [...]

The NLRB has changed its rules to disfavor “salting” campaigns. Shocker, we know.
But to do it without being asked, in the headwind of a still-young Supreme Court decision protecting salts under the NLRA is pretty ballsy, you have to admit.
Salts, of course, are the much-maligned folks that seek employment at non-union shops for the express [...]

I have been trying all day to figure out how to appropriately open CE’s doors – what first post would really capture the purpose and importance of what we’re trying to do here, and I had come up with zero. Then the Chicago Tribune did all my work for me.
Right on the front page [...]