Before Permanent Solutions (1978-2001)

Ricardo Torres began his career by organizing union campaigns. He later moved on to be a high ranking union official within the Teamsters and Steelworkers. Ricardo has worked on nearly 1,000 campaigns throughout the world.  Ricardo was instrumental in the deployment of the curriculum at the AFL-CIO Organizers Institute.  He counseled many unions when developing new strategies and tactics.  In fact, many of these strategies and tactics are the ones that unions are using today.

During this time, Ricardo witnessed many acts of deceit and corruption; often being asked to participate in unethical union tactics. Ricardo could not live with this deceit and left a high paying and powerful position to form Permanent Solutions Labor Consultants.

The First 10 Years (2001-2011)

Permanent Solutions Labor Consultants (PSLabor) started the firm by providing both former union organizers and top management officers, with common goal of assisting legal teams and companies with their efforts to keep unions out.

When Ricardo formed his new company in 2001 he thought long and hard about a name. He named the company Permanent Solutions because his goal was to provide true "Permanent Solutions" to issues that raise levels of employee engagement and morale and that promote positive employee relations without the need for third party representation.

Permanent Solutions has an astounding a 100% win-rate in full campaigns inside the U.S. and a near perfect record outside the U.S. This amazing record was made possible because of our unique edge. We know how unions think, when they are ready to act and how to counter their every move.

Addition of HR Services (2011-Present)

In the January of 2011, Permanent Solutions Labor Consultants added a full line of Human Resource services. It became clear that many of the labor issues that lead to union campaigns could have been prevented. Because of this, PSLC added many programs that will serve as roadmaps for management teams in their efforts to proactively promote positive employee relations within their organizations.

Part of this process includes basic HR services such as development of policies and procedures, benefit analysis, succession planning etc. The other part includes high-level coaching programs for management designed to bring positive employee relations into an organizations DNA.

From Healthcare to Corporations to Government systems, PSLC has a program ready to accomplish your goal of providing your management team with the education and tools to promote positive employee relations.

PSLC's Human Resource Programs are head and shoulders above the rest. Like we did with our union avoidance programs, we developed our programs with a purpose. We go in to each client's organization with the goal of identifying and implementing a "Permanent Solution" to their issues. When we leave an organization, we leave them ready to move forward and ready to serve as a model of employment that other companies strive to be.