Title: Confronting Union Bannering and Related Pressure Tactics
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Time: 3:30 p.m. (ET) / 2:30 p.m. (CT) / 1:30 p.m. (MT) / 12:30 p.m. (PT)
Length: 75 minutes
Fee: Free for ABC members
Speaker: Maury Baskin, Partner, Venable LLP and ABC General Counsel
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Get up to date on how “bannering,” or using large stationary banners to attack neutral construction users and keep them from hiring nonunion contractors, is being used to expand the boundaries of "corporate campaigns," in which unions launch unfair and sometimes illegal attacks against merit shop construction firms and the owners that hire them. With construction union membership at an all-time low due to lack of interest among employees, contractors and construction users need to learn how to protect their rights to perform work on the basis of free and open competition, regardless of union bannering and related tactics.
• Learn about legal strategies to evaluate and combat union bannering practices and related pressure tactics
• Identify public relations and legal best practices to combat bannering campaigns
• Understand What to expect and how to react if you become a target of union bannering
• Construction owners
• Attorneys counseling construction companies
• ABC chapter staff
Maurice Baskin, partner, Venable LLC, focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law representing management. He counsels and litigates on behalf of employers dealing with union organizing, collective bargaining, wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, arbitration, government contracts, wage/hour law and "prevailing" wages, executive agreements, unfair competition and personnel advice. For Baskin's full biography, click here.