This piece is a brief profile on a company that supplies replacement workers in labor disputes.

We do not see a lot of lockouts in this part of the country. In the Temple nurses' labor dispute the fact of a lockout dramatically affected the cost of the labor dispute. Under Pennsylvania law strikers are not eligible for unemployment, but when the employer locks out the employees, the employees are eligible for unemployment. More details in this news article.

The NFL and the players are in court today for oral argument on the lockout injunction case.

The Eighth Circuit has handed the owners an encouraging win by granting a stay of the injunction of the owner's lockout. In so doing the court does a pretty good job of explaining how the Norris-LaGuardia Act prohibits injunctions of labor disputes. A labor dispute can occur even in the absence of a certified union, thus the player's decertification, in the court's view, did not make the Norris-LaGuardia Act's prohibitions on injunctions inapplicable.

Mike Florio analyzes the ten questions the players union has posed to the NFL.

The NFL is big business and the collateral damage from a lockout would hurt more than just the players and the owners.

Redskins, Colts and Philadelphia unanimously vote to authorize decertification of the NFLPA.

More on the issues between the NFL and the NFLPA, and the possible 2011 lockout. Former Saint Rickey Jackson makes a poignant assessment.