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From effectively shuttering the FMCS to ending collective bargaining for certain agencies to the rehiring and refiring of NLRB Gwynne Wilcox, Alex MacDonald helps explain what's going on. In the last week alone, the Trump administration has effectively shuttered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, ended collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, two separate lawsuits filed against government unions, and union lawsuits filed against the Trump administration...

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From effectively shuttering the FMCS to ending collective bargaining for certain agencies to the rehiring and refiring of NLRB Gwynne Wilcox, Alex MacDonald helps explain what's going on. In the last week alone, the Trump administration has effectively shuttered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, ended collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, two separate lawsuits filed against government unions, and union lawsuits filed against the Trump administration...

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Labor Relations Radio, E168—So much is happening in DC regarding unions almost daily. WPI's Alex MacDonald helps break it down.

From effectively shuttering the FMCS to ending collective bargaining for certain agencies to the rehiring and refiring of NLRB Gwynne Wilcox, Alex MacDonald helps explain what's going on. In the last week alone, the Trump administration has effectively shuttered the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, ended collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, two separate lawsuits filed against government unions, and union lawsuits filed against the Trump administration...

7 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E167 — An Update On The 'War On The Gig Economy' With FreelanceBusting.com's Kim Kavin

Kim Kavin rejoins the podcast to discuss all the latest in the unions' and Democrats' efforts to destroy independent contracting for millions of Americans. Kim Kavin, a freelance writer and editor, co-founder of Fight for Freelancers USA, and publisher of FreelanceBusting.com, returns to the podcast to discuss the latest happenings in the War on the Gig Economy. In this episode Kim discusses what is transpiring at the federal and state levels with respect to the efforts to fight for Americans...

7 months ago

56 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E166—A New Bill Puts the Feds into the Position of Dictating Contract Terms On The Private Sector. Here's Why That's Bad...

WPI's Alex MacDonald returns to the podcast to discuss a "bipartisan" bill to allow the federal government to mandate first-contracts on private-sector employers. ______________________________ If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915 _____________________________ On Tuesday, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO), as well as Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Gary Pet...

8 months ago

53 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E165—UC Berkeley Professor James O'Brien on AI and the Urgency to Consider UBI

James F. O’Brien is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and has written about how the coming AI job apocalypse necessitates the need to look at alternative means of revenue, including taxing AI, to avoid mass societal disruption. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Professor O’Brien joins host Peter List to discuss how fast AI is moving into our society, the “upstream” and “downstream” effect and what they mean to all of us. Related: The impending A...

8 months ago

2 hours 16 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E164—What is Happening on the Labor Front in DC? Kristen Swearingen Fills Us In.

A lot is going on in Washington, DC these days. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Kristen Swearingen Vice President, Legislative & Political Affairs at the Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. and spokesperson for the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace joins host Peter List to discuss some of the issues, including the re-introduction of the PRO Act, Sen. Josh Hawley’s “PRO Act-Lite” framework, as well as President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Labor, Lori Chav...

8 months ago

28 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E163—NRTW's Mark Mix on Trump's Secretary of Labor Nominee & Sen. Josh Hawley's Anti-Worker Folly

If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915 _______________ Republican politicians' efforts to 'realign' with unions may, in fact, actually hurt American workers and free choice. Mark Mix of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation rejoins the podcast to discuss Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s nominee to become the Secretary of Labor...

8 months ago

47 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E162—'Economic Oracle' Jon Morrow on our possible future

Nearly two years after his first episode on Labor Relations Radio, economist Jon Morrow returns to discuss a wide array of topics: The topics range from the return of Donald Trump to the Presidency, the national debt, artificial intelligence, new nuclear power and desalinization plants, to the impacts of TikTok, Only Fans, and AI on our culture. ______________________ Labor Relation Radio, E74—Economist Jon Morrow on Declining Birth Rates, the Advent of AI, the State of the Economy and Cultur...

8 months ago

1 hour 51 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E161—WPI's Alex MacDonald On The Legal Theory Behind The Firing Of NLRB Member Wilcox

President Trump's terminating NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo was expected; terminating NLRB Member Wilcox was not. WPI's Alex MacDonald explains the legal theories that may be behind the move. On Monday, President Trump terminated the employment of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, which was widely expected. However, what was not expected was that Trump also fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, returning guest Alex Mac...

9 months ago

57 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E160—NRF's Ed Egee on the latest labor happenings in Washington, DC

National Retail Federation's Ed Egee provides an update on some of the latest happenings in Washington, DC since Pres. Trump re-entered the Oval Office. Mr. Edwin Egee, vice president, government relations and workforce development at the National Retail Federation. He is responsible for NRF’s policy agenda on labor, employment, immigration and health care. He manages NRF’s Employment Law and Benefits Committee. Though early in the new Trump Administration, Mr. Egee joins host Peter List to ...

9 months ago

55 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E159—Back-to-Back Interviews on the California Wildfires

California Policy Center's Edward Ring and Retired Battalion Chief Frank Ricci discuss some of the issues that have contributed to the devastation of the California wildfires. Recorded separately for YGTBFKMNews.com’s Daily News, Edward Ring, the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, and Frank Ricci, a retired firefighter, battalion chief, and union president, joined host Peter List to discuss the issues involved with the fires wreaking havoc and destruction a...

9 months ago

56 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E158—Historical Karma: How Jimmy Carter May Have Helped Trump Get Elected in 2024

Connecting the dots from Carter's deregulation crusade nearly 45 years ago to the election of Donald Trump. In a wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson, Teamsters’ President Sean O’Brien explained how the Democrats broke the Teamsters’ pension funds and expected to be thanked for fixing them 40 years later. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, host Peter List revisits the Carter legacy, and Democrats’ crusade to deregulate certain industries did more to decimate unions than Ronald R...

10 months ago

21 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio E157—An NLRB Roundup with LRI's Michael VanDervort

A discussion between two non-attorneys about the latest happenings at the National Labor Relations Board There have been a lot of developments at the National Labor Relations Board since the November 5th election, and with President Trump returning to the White House in November, many expect the labor law pendulum to swing back to the right after January. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Labor Relations Institute’s Michael VanDervort joins host Peter List to get caught up on some of...

10 months ago

39 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E155—Is Trump's Pick For Department of Labor '4D Chess' or Just A Terrible Pick? With RedState.com's Jen Van Laar

Picking a PRO-Act supporting, amnesty and Big Government-loving, one-term Congresswoman as the next labor secretary has many people scratching their heads. On Friday evening, much to the surprise of the business community and millions of independent contractors, President-elect Donald Trump nominated a one-term Congresswoman, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore), to become Trump’s Secretary of Labor. Despite her seeming lack of qualifications, Chavez-DeRemer’s pick is surprising to many people d...

11 months ago

33 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E156—Writer Erik Sherman on Income Inequality and the Dystopian Impact of AI

A wide-ranging discussion on income inequality, the growth of artificial intelligence and its impact on society. Erik Sherman is a freelance writer who reports on business, economics, finance, investing, markets, tech, law, commercial real estate, and income and wealth inequality. His credits include Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Magazine, NBC News, CBS Moneywatch, Technology Review, The Fiscal Times, and Inc. He is also the author or co-author of 10 nonfiction books. ...

11 months ago

55 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E154—A Union Trojan Horse Is Being Pushed For Labor Secretary; Michael Saltsman Explains

Teamsters' President Sean O'Brien—and the AFT's Randi Weingarten—want a pro-union former Congresswoman to head Donald Trump's Department of Labor. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien is recommending Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, an Oregon Republican, to lead the Department of Labor under the incoming Trump administration. She is an odd choice for Trump to consider, given her backing of the economy-destroying PRO Act, and she has already garnered much criticism from many people and groups, including...

11 months ago

35 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E153—Attorney Mike Carrouth On What the NLRB's New 'Captive Audience' Ban Means For Employers

The NLRB, in overturning a 78-year-old precedent, pushes the pendulum even further to the left. Though not unexpected, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its long-awaited decision, which bans employers from conducting so-called “captive-audience” (aka mandatory) meetings with their employees during union organizing campaigns. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, labor attorney Mike Carrouth, from the law firm Fisher Phillips, shares the basics in what employers are allowed...

11 months ago

41 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E152—LRI's Phil Wilson On The NLRB's Decision Reversing The 40-Year Old 'Tricast' Doctrine

Employers and their agents beware: You will now be held accountable if you do not correctly explain the NLRA's Section 9(a) when speaking with employees. Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Siren Retail Corp d/b/a Starbucks, overruling Tri-Cast, Inc., 274 NLRB 377 (1985) and clarifying the test that the Board will use to evaluate whether employer predictions about the impact of unionization on the relationship between individual employees and their emplo...

11 months ago

45 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E155—Is Trump's Pick For Department of Labor '4D Chess' or Just A Terrible Pick? With RedState.com's Jen Van Laar

Picking a PRO-Act supporting, amnesty and Big Government-loving, one-term Congresswoman as the next labor secretary has many people scratching their heads. On Friday evening, much to the surprise of the business community and millions of independent contractors, President-elect Donald Trump nominated a one-term Congresswoman, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore), to become Trump’s Secretary of Labor. Despite her seeming lack of qualifications, Chavez-DeRemer’s pick is surprising to many people d...

11 months ago

33 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E151—Attorney Jon Hyman On What To Expect Under A Trump NLRB

With the election of Donald Trump to become the 47th President of the United States, both employers and unions should expect yet another pendulum swing in labor law. In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, returning guest Jon Hyman, a shareholder with Wickens Herzer Panza shares some insights as to what we might see coming in 2025. Related Links: Jon Hyman’s Ohio Employer Law BlogJon Hyman on LinkedIn.comThe Norah and Dad ShowLabor Relations Radio, Ep. 18: Guest—The 'Master of Workplace Sch...

12 months ago

38 minutes

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Labor Relations Radio, E150—Attorney Cary Burke On What Employers & Unions Can Expect In Labor Relations Post Election

Plus, Elon Musk's victory at the Fifth Circuit With the November 5th elections right around the corner, employers and unions alike are girding themselves for what could be a very consequential outcome. In this, the 150th episode of Labor Relations Radio, labor attorney and returning guest Cary Burke joins host Peter List to discuss Elon Musk’s recent victory at the Fifth Circuit over an old tweet, as well as potential labor relations outcomes if Kamala Harris or Donald Trump win the presiden...

1 year ago

49 minutes