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University of Michigan Law School

Labor and Employment Law

1967

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Labor Law-Nlrb Regulation Of Employer's Pre-Election Captive Audience Speeches, Michigan Law Review Apr 1967

Labor Law-Nlrb Regulation Of Employer's Pre-Election Captive Audience Speeches, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

One of the most effective weapons that an employer may utilize to dissuade his employees from accepting unionization is an antiunion speech delivered to the assembled employees on company time and property shortly before a scheduled representation election. Two recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions have provided an opportunity for reopening the much debated question of a campaigning union's right to reply under equal opportunity conditions to such a captive audience speech. In McCulloch Corp., a union sought to have the unfavorable results of a representation election set aside on the ground that the employer's refusal to allow …


Establishment Of Bargaining Rights Without An Nlrb Election, Howard Lesnick Mar 1967

Establishment Of Bargaining Rights Without An Nlrb Election, Howard Lesnick

Michigan Law Review

Those who have become accustomed to keep one ear cocked for the five-part harmony relentlessly ground out by the mimeograph machines at NLRB headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue-those whom one may call professional Board-watchers-have doubtless noticed how fashions come and go in the subjects of NLRB litigation. It is as if the interest of litigants as easily wanes as does that of the reader of opinions, for there is a fairly regular succession of themes, each to be developed for a time until, as though by common consent, attention swings toward a different problem entirely. The wave of the present, I …


Labor Law-Two Views Of A Labor Relations Consultant's Duty To Report Under Section 203 Of The Lmrda, Michigan Law Review Jan 1967

Labor Law-Two Views Of A Labor Relations Consultant's Duty To Report Under Section 203 Of The Lmrda, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Title II of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) requires unions, union officials, union employees, employers and "labor relations consultants" to file various reports with the Secretary of Labor. The purpose of these provisions is to discourage corrupt, though not necessarily illegal, labor management activities by disclosing them for public scrutiny. Section 203(b) of the Act, which is aimed at the "labor relations consultant," states that "every person" who agrees with an employer to "directly or indirectly" (1) "persuade employees" regarding their right to organize and bargain collectively or (2) inform the employer of certain union-employee activities must file …