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  Australia - Deregulation of Labour Relations
 The Coalition Government and various business groups continue to argue that the need for more labor market "deregulation" or "reform" justifies further changes to Australia's labor relations system.
  Australia Labour Employment Law
 This guide contains links to Internet resources and documents in the area of federal employment law, as well as providing links to other guides and directories which contain material on State and Territory and overseas law.
  California Employer Advisor
 Employment Law Compiance Help for California Employers
  Canadian Labour Law
 
  Center for Union Facts
 The Center for Union Facts has gathered a wealth of information about the size, scope, political activities, and criminal activity of the labor movement in the United States of America. Welcome to UnionFacts.com
  Confederation of British Industries
 The CBI helps create and sustain the conditions in which businesses in the United Kingdom can compete and prosper for the benefit of all. We are the premier lobbying organisation for UK business on national and international issues.
  Corporate Campaigns, Inc.
 A union organizers guide to running turning local labor struggles into highly visible statewide and national campaigns while generating widespread organizational and financial support for unions.
  Council on Union-Free Environment
 An international organization for labor relations professionals for positive employee relations.
  EFCA Update
 Employee Free Choice Act - News and Information
  EFCA Update: Employee Free Choice Act News and Research
 
  Employee Freedom-EFCA Fact Sheet-Mythbusting Union Rhetoric
 The Employee Freedom Action Committee (EFAC) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization fighting for fair elections in the workplace. The committee is comprised of thousands of American workers, employers and others that believe that everyone deserves a right to a private, fair election when it comes to joining a labor union.
  Employee Relations Act 1999 (U.K.)
 
  Employee Relations Act 2004 (U.K.)
 
  EU Labour Law
 The adoption of legislation setting minimum requirements has improved labour standards and strengthened workers' rights and is one of the EU's main achievements in the field of social policy.
  Federation of European Employers
 Each European country operates a distinct system of labour legislation and judicial enforcement. This is often closely linked to the process of collective bargaining and social partner consultation arrangements. Set out below are brief introductions to the framework of labour laws in a number of European countries followed by examples of primary legislation in English.
  Free Work Place
 The National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights is are made up of both employers and employees from across the nation.
  Freedom @ Work (Blog)
 News and Views from National Right to Work
  Labor Information Services
 Labor Information Services (LIS) is a third party persuading consulting team that directly meets the challenges of communication within your unique employee population.
  Laboring Away at the Institute (Blog)
 The musings, meanderings and occasional cogent thoughts of a labor relations author, lawyer, organization development consultant and professor. This blog sits at the intersection of labor, organization transformation, politics, austrian-economics and high-end audio. I'm pretty much the only house on the block.
  LaborPains
 LaborPains is a joint blog of the Center for Union Facts and the Employee Freedom Action Committee
  McKeon: Card Check is an Attack on Workers’ Rights & the American Economy
 Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today denounced the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, legislation introduced by congressional Democrats that would deny workers the right to secret ballots in union organizing elections.
  Mobsters, Unions, and Feds-The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
 James B. Jacobs Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century.
  National Center for Policy Analysis - Union News
 The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
  National Institute of Labor Relations Research
 NILRR's provides the supplementary analysis and research necessary to expose the inequities of compulsory unionism.
  National Labor Relations Act
 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT Also cited NLRA or the Act; 29 U.S.C. §§ 151–169 [Title 29, Chapter 7, Subchapter II, United States Code]
  National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
 The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector. The statute guarantees the right of employees to organize and to bargain collectively with their employers, and to engage in other protected concerted activity with or without a union, or to refrain from all such activity.
  National Legal and Policy Center-Organized Labor Accountability Project
 NLPC makes the case for the end of the use of compulsory union dues for political purposes by exposing abuses by Organized Labor in its political and organizing activities. Since 1997, NLPC has become a high-profile and credible source for information on union corruption. Every two weeks, NLPC distributes a newsletter entitled Union Corruption Update by fax and email. The newsletter has been referenced in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and National Journal.
  National Mediation Board
 The National Mediation Board (NMB), established by the 1934 amendments to the Railway Labor Act of 1926, is an independent agency that performs a central role in facilitating harmonious labor-management relations within two of the nation's key transportation modes--the railroads and airlines. Pursuant to the Railway Labor Act, NMB programs provide an integrated dispute resolution process to effectively meet the statutory objective of minimizing work stoppages in the airline and railroad industries.
  National Right to Work Committee
 The National Right to Work Committee® is a coalition of 2.2 million American citizens united by one belief: No one should be forced to pay tribute to a union in order to get or keep a job.
  National Right to Work-Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.
 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, established in 1968, is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by abuses of compulsory unionism.
  PTI Labor Research
 PTI provides POWER THROUGH INFORMATION. PTI Labor Research serves the needs of the Labor Relations community with powerful custom communications solutions including corporate videos, web-based training and in depth research services directed to organized labor issues.
  Railway Labor Act
 TITLE 45 - United States Code, Chapter 8 - Sections 151-188, 1996 Edition
  Resources for Union Organizing
 Resources for Labor Union Organizing is designed for U.S. Workers organizing themselves and their co-workers into labor unions.
  SEIU Watch - Posted by CNA (Reveals conflict between the unions)
 SEIU stands for Serving Employers Instead of US - by California Nurses Association
  SEIU: Debating Labor's Strategy
 
  Shame on C.N.A. - Posted by the S.E.I.U
 Unions at war. The Truth about the California Nurses Association as posted and maintained by the S.E.I.U.
  Shame On The CNA
 The Truth About The California Nurses Association
  Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
 The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management.
  Stop Unions
 This site is to educate employees about the consequences of electing to be represented by a union. Our mission is to provide a perspective other than the one being provided by the unions.
  Taft- Hartley Labor Act
 
  The Burke Group EU
 The Burke Group is international in scope and, as such, applies labour relations practices applicable to EU and UK labour laws and culture. The US website is not applicable.
  The Labor Educator - New Game Plan for Union Organizins
 This is a Pro union site
  The Union-Free Employer
 Articles, insights, resources, and news-items of interest to employers who value -- and wish to maintain -- their union-free status.
  Tomorrow Project - Do Trade Unions Have A Future?
 
  Trade Union & Labour Relations Act 1992 (UK)
 
  Trade Union Congress
 We negotiate in Europe, and at home build links with political parties, business, local communities and wider society.
  Union Corruption Update
 National Legal and Policy Center promotes a single standard of ethics in public life through research, education and legal action.
  Union Free America
 This web site is dedicated to the vast majority of American workers who have chosen to deal directly with their employers rather than through a union.
  Union Free Employer - Union Free Blogspot
 
  Union Math, Union Myths
 An analysis of Government Data of Employees Fired During Union Organizing Campaigns
  Union News Blog Spot (100% ad free)
 This is a 100% ad-free blog of daily news from the net.
  Union Statistics - Constructed by Barry Hirsch and David MacPherson
 The Union Membership and Coverage Database, is an Internet data resource providing private and public sector labor union membership, coverage, and density estimates compiled from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly household survey, using BLS methods. Economy-wide estimates are provided beginning in 1973; estimates by state, detailed industry, and detailed occupation begin in 1983; and estimates by metropolitan area begin in 1986. The Database is updated annually.
  US - Department of Labor
 The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support.

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