From the monthly archives:

February 2011

Breaking: NLRB settlement imposes heavy employer remedies

February 28, 2011

Board imposes heavy remedies on Missouri company The National Labor Relations Board has been discussing using more strict employer remedies in recent days, and a case they just settled contains many of these remedies, including requiring a company executive to read the terms of the settlement aloud before all employees, and granting access to the [...]

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Union to pay millions for illegally obtaining workers private information

February 28, 2011

Union accessed worker’s home addresses illegally A union is going to have to pay millions of dollars for imporporerly obtaining the home addresses of employees at the Cintas company, according to this story from the Courthouse News Service: A textile union must pay more than $4 million under the settlement of a federal class action that [...]

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Why fast food should still be concerned about the Jimmy John’s union election

February 20, 2011

Fast Food operators still at risk of union organizing Here is a look at a how labor oriented web site is reporting on how what they term a “union busting” law firm is reporting on the potential of the continued growth of labor union organizing in the fast food restaurant industry.   The fact that unions are [...]

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The new LinkedIn Fail Whale

February 20, 2011

Sorry, that is too many connections….. The message from Mountain Lakes, Wow, that is one large network, dude! I tried to use the rather cool new LinkedIn Network visualization tool and this is what it looked like.  You kind of have to wonder why they can’t handle bigger networks? From Drop Box Bummer!

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Social Media Emergency Rescue, Red Cross Style

February 17, 2011

Red Cross handles social media faux pas with style and panache    Check this, and bow down in awe, kids! This is an awesome example of a great recovery from an unintended corporate social media faux pas by someone tweeting from the Red Cross twitter account.  Source: Red Cross Twitter Faux Pas Posted on February 16th, [...]

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Micro Unions: NLRB heading towards minority representation

February 16, 2011

How many union contracts are too many? When the employees at a company are represented by a union, one of the objectives that management usually pursues is to get a satisfactory collective bargaining agreement in place that covers most of the employees under one agreement.  This is important for a number of reason, not the [...]

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Our HR department doesn’t suck anymore

February 14, 2011

A tale of a team building #Fail This is another of my short videos on HR.  The story this time is about a really bad team building effort.  You will see what I mean when you watch.

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From Bud to Boss launch day is tomorrow

February 14, 2011

Help for making the move from worker to management One of the most basic challenges any person entering management, or any leadership position for that matter, is making the transition from being a member of the core workforce, and assuming the rule of “boss”. Last week, I received a preview copy of a new book [...]

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Help me with my Project Social – HR Chatterbox is now up!

February 14, 2011

Project Social A couple of months ago, I volunteered to participate in Project Social, started by Ben Eubanks and Victorio Milian.   You can read all about Project: Social and how it got started by clicking here and here.  Essentially, it is an effort to match  HR pros who are savvy with social media with [...]

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Leadership Experience: Guest post by Kevin Eikenberry

February 12, 2011

Leadership Experience The Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus once noted, “You cannot create experience, you must undergo it.” This points to a problem inherent in most all training programs, and perhaps especially in leadership development programs; workshops and seminars don’t provide experience (and therefore don’t prepare people with skills). To build your leadership skills [...]

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