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500 Coke employees lost their health insurance the day after they went on strike. The union has sued under ERISA, claiming the action was unlawful retaliation. Thats a difficult claim to make. When workers strike, an employer is free to discontinue wages and benefits. Once the worker witholds his services, the employer may discontinue compensation for those service...

UPDATE: There is pending legislation for major changes to the alimony statute in Massachusetts. The Alimony Reform Act of 2011 was filed on January 18, 2011 and you can learn more about the Act at MassAlimonyFormula.com or in our recent blog post highlighting the differences between the bill and the current law.Attorney Scott R. Stevenson of Hingham, Massachusetts and Attorney Justin L. Kelsey, Esq. (one of the authors of this blog) created the Stevenson-Kelsey Spousal Support...

Two weeks ago, a Florida man was arrested for logging on to his Facebook account and requesting that his estranged wife list him as a "friend" on the popular social networking website, Facebook. Of course, ordinarily requesting that someone be your "friend" on Facebook is not an arrestable offense, but it may be if it is in violation of a restraining order.While it is important to realize that the actual act of requesting that someone be your Facebook "friend" may seem completely...

Today marks day 100 of the Mott's strike. The pro-union writer, Michael Winship, does a pretty good job of outlining the economics of this strike pitting a corporate giant in Plano, Texas against the workers of a facility born in western New York that dates back to 1842. Our previous posts are here, here, here, here and her...

Medical marijuana legal in some states, is creating some employment law problems. Seems employees with prescriptions for medicinal use of marijuana are failing employers drug tests, and consequently are being fired. This is neither a simple issue nor is the law clea...

This business owner's letter to the editor makes a strong case for preservation of the secret ballot for determining a union's majority statu...

Here is another example (the leather goods industry) of the absolute collapse of domestic manufacturing causing the elimination of high paying, mostly unionized jobs. The interesting part here is an article with little politics and a good amount of plain fact...