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These Articles are offered as part of our objective to educate and empower Employee & Labor Relations Leaders!


Happy 250th Birthday, America!
Thomas Jefferson was chosen to create a first-draft of a document that would spell out the colonists’ grievances and also spell out the principles that the new country would stand for. He toiled alone for over two weeks in a boardinghouse, writing and re-writing the draft of the document.


Getting to Yes, Chapter 5 – Insist on Using Objective Criteria
In collective bargaining, the company has an interest in cost containment. The union has an interest in higher wages and better benefits. It will always be that way, and the interests collide and threaten every collective bargaining session at some point.


Win at work with “essence” and “empathy”
Grievance activity is not a “bad” thing – it gives us an organized and predictable way of sorting out our problems


The Workday lawsuit highlights AI recruiting risks
According to a January 8, 2026 article by Naveen Kumar of Demandsage, 87% of companies are now using AI-driven tools to save time and money in the hiring process.


The Wisdom of Consensus Building
At MARC we stress the importance of making important labor relations decisions by the consensus method , believing a group’s solutions will provide different viewpoints, information and experiences that result in better end decisions. As I was catching up on national news today, I saw that the US Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) authorizes the President to impose tariffs. SCOTUS held 6-3 that the IEEPA do


The NLRB is back in business
From early in 2025 on, the NLRB Board signaled its intent to return to a more business-friendly approach to labor law
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