Oregon captive audience law challenged

U.S. Chamber sues to block enforcement of Oregon law preventing employers from having captive audience meetings with employees during union organizing drives. This prediction is easy. I see no way state regulation of the NLRB campaign process survives a preemption challenge.

Web 2.0 and organizing

Teamsters online manager Richard Negri who attended the Organizing 2.0 conference in New York last week, has posted his comments on the event here. Best observation after the jump:

AFL-CIO and social media

The AFL-CIO blog recently embraced the use of social media as an organizing tool. One of an employer's big advantages in the effort to maintain union free status is the difficulty labor has in contacting employees. Employers assert property rights to prevent FtF access, access to e-mail or any other use of company property to communicate a union message. Under current law, employers have many ways to prevent workplace communications concerning unionization, as long as they do not discriminate on the basis of content. While unions are free to approach employees at home, or other times when they are away from the workplace, this is both intrusive and inefficient. Thats where the intertubes, social media and blogging comes in.