Some people would call Cliff Nelson a union buster, but he thinks of himself as a gladiator -- and says he's part of a dying breed of lawyers who practice labor law. Today less than 8 percent of private-sector workers are unionized, compared to one-third of private sector workers when the AFL-CIO formed 50 years ago, and the traditional practice of labor law has declined accordingly. Many practitioners have shifted into employment law, an outgrowth of labor law, which over the years has eclipsed its parent.
August 02, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Some people would call Cliff Nelson a union buster, but he thinks of himself as a gladiator — and says he’s part of a dying breed.
I asked Nelson, a labor lawyer at Constangy Brooks & Smith, to lunch to find out what’s happened one year after the much-publicized split of unions from the AFL-CIO to form the Change to Win coalition, which has vowed a return to the basics — aggressive union organizing.
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