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A Reexamination Of The Role Of Employer Motive Under Sections 8(A)(1) And 8(A)(3) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Paul N. Cox

Seattle University Law Review

The question of the role of employer motive in analysis of the unfair labor practices defined by Sections 8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act has troubled the National Labor Relations Board and the courts from time of the enactment of that legislation. Despite repeated efforts by the Supreme Court to authoritatively define that role and repeated efforts by academics to advise the Court in the task, motive's function remains confused—the subject of diverse viewpoints compromised in the cases by an analysis which submerges fundamental isssues in the language of procedural burdens of proof. The Board, which had …