Law360, New York (January 21, 2014, 6:55 PM EST) -- Since 2009, employers that are union-free — and those who intend to stay that way — have had to deal with a blizzard of new decisions and rules by agencies of the Obama Administration to make union organizing easier for employees, and more difficult for employers resist. It appears that the final pieces of a grand payback to organized labor, in lieu of the Employee Free Choice Act, will fall into place in 2014. As a result, employers will have to reinvent their union-free strategies to meet game-changing challenges. Employers that do not change and retool their union-free strategies dramatically will find that organized labor has been dealt all of the winning cards. Once union organizing is underway, there will not be time to make amendments and the National Labor Relations Board's law will prevent most of the most essential and effective changes....