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The AGC Labor and Employment Law Council - a network of labor lawyers who represent AGC members and chapters - held its 26th Annual Construction Labor Law Symposium on April 16 in Washington, DC. Attorneys and chapter labor relations managers from across the country attended.
Council members and guest speakers provided presentations on various developments in construction labor and employment law, including:
- The Latest Info on Project Labor Agreements and How to Negotiate Them
- Labor Requirements for Federal & Federally Assisted Contracts
- Interesting Issues in Multiemployer Pension Plans
- Primer on Handbilling, Picketing & Bannering
- Primer on §§8(b)(4)(D) and 10(k) - Jurisdictional Disputes
- Conducting I-9 Self-Audits
- Workplace Violence: "Terror, Trials, and Trends"
- Workplace Pandemic Planning
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NLRB Chairman Wilma Liebman
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The Obama Board will take a fundamentally different approach to decision-making than the Bush Board, Liebman said. Under her chairmanship, the Board will take a more "dynamic" approach, viewing the National Labor Relations Act as a "living document" and taking into consideration happenings in the "real-world." However, fears of imminent, wholesale changes in the law by the Obama Board are unrealistic, Liebman maintained, due to constraints such as judicial review of Board decisions, statutory restrictions on economic analysis by the Board, frequent turnover of Board membership, and case processing delay. If fundamental change in labor law is to occur, she said, it must come from Congress. She further explained that, while she is exploring the idea of the Board engaging in formal rule-making -- issuing regulations in addition to deciding cases - she is not sure whether the Board will actually conduct rule-making. The Board's inexperience in the area, restrictions on economic analysis, and the time-consuming nature of the process present obstacles.
Senate Minority Labor Counsel Kyle Hicks
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(L-R:) LELC Member Mike Boldt of Ice Miller; Senior Compliance Specialist Bill Isokait of U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division; AGC Associate General Counsel Denise Gold; NLRB General Counsel Ron Meisburg