Cross-posted at EFCA Updates.

Regular readers of our blogs are familiar with the RICO suits filed by Wackenhut, Smithfield Foods and Cintas against various labor unions engaged in Corporate Campaigns against the companies.    The July 2008 edition of CRC’s “Labor Watch” provides an overview of these suits: “RICO Suits: Employers Fight Back Against Union Smear Campaigns.”  Kilpatrick Stockton’s Seth Borden is quoted throughout the piece:

“The formal papers in these cases all do a fantastic, detailed job of illustrating the horrors of the typical union corporate campaign,” says Borden. “The alleged racketeering activity at issue in all the cases contains common elements such as the creation of surrogate organizations to spread negative publicity about the employer, the publication of reports and cleverly disguised websites disparaging the employer, exploitation of other social, political and commercial interests adverse to the employer, filing and publicizing frivolous legal claims and many other tactics.”

For more information on Corporate Campaigns, and the related RICO litigation, read the entire article here.