Media Coverage - LRI In The News

SHRM reached out to Phil Wilson for a late January article regarding the changes the NLRB made to the definition of protected concerted activity. Wilson commented that "protected, concerted activity cases involving individual griping won't be considered. It gives...

On the list of top priorities for the NLRB this year is a review of the Ambush Election Rule, an Obama-era piece of legislation that reduced the union campaign period from 37 to 23 days. Many have had a hard time reconciling the value of this rule in regards to a fair...

The December 15th NLRB decision in Raytheon Network Centric Systems will make the work of HR professionals easier in unionized companies, but Phil recommended caution when considering unilateral changes. The SHRM article highlights the import of the decision as the...

“Leaders who rely on power get burned, and yet, many of them rely on position or formal authority to get things done.”  Phil Wilson was responding to questions about bad habits executives can fall prey to. Terri Williams, writing for the Executive Education Navigator,...

Developments at the NLRB and in Congress may have the desired impact employers are hoping for. This is the gist of what Phil Wilson confirmed for SHRM reporter Allen Smith yesterday. Two issues are coalescing to roll back the ambush election rule - a Republican...

Pivot10, a company focused on helping businesses with company culture and employee engagement, featured an interview with Phil discussing Approachable Leadership. Podcast topics included: Going from broken to positive leadership The employment relationship – a...

In this Zenefits Blog article on 5 Things Employees Value More Than Salary, approachability was listed as the number 2 item. Phil reinforced the value of approachability: “Our research finds that this one factor alone is correlated to 89 percent of employee...

The Society for Human Resource Management recently reached out to a variety of experts in the field of labor relations, looking for explanations for the latest decline in union membership, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  In the article, LRI's president...

We all know to expect changes in labor relations when Trump takes office. But what those changes are remain yet to be determined. While it's easy to expect him to be more pro-business than the Obama administration, in a recent SHRM article, Phil suggests that we need...