NLRB & Social Media

As a labor and employment mediator and arbitrator, I have been alternatingly intrigued and concerned about recent NLRB guidelines and ALJ rulings concerning use of and limitations on the use of social media.  See, e.g., Aug. 18, 2011 NLRB Office of General Counsel Report

Public Sector Woes Part III: Public Sector CBAs & Unilateral Change

As readers may know, I have been doing a series of reviews/commentaries based on the Winter 2012 ABQ Journal of Labor & Employment Law, which is largely devoted to the recent travails of public sector collective bargaining.  One article, by Stephen F. Befort, asks why is unilateral change somehow more acceptable or possible in the public sector.