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Neutrality Agreements And Card Check Recognition: Prospects For Changing Paradigms , James J. Brudney
Neutrality Agreements And Card Check Recognition: Prospects For Changing Paradigms , James J. Brudney
Faculty Scholarship
The rise of neutrality agreements is a major development in labor-management relations in this country. The union movement's new approach to organizing displaces elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with negotiated agreements that provide for employers to remain neutral during an upcoming union campaign and (in most instances) for employees to decide if they wish to be represented through signing authorization cards rather than through a secret ballot election. Professor Brudney demonstrates the substantial role now being played by this contractually based approach to union organizing. He also explains why so many employers have agreed to neutrality …
A City In Terror. By Francis Russell. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1975. Pp. 256. $10.00., Joseph R. Crowley
A City In Terror. By Francis Russell. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1975. Pp. 256. $10.00., Joseph R. Crowley
Fordham Urban Law Journal
In the past decade, the greatest phenomena in the field of labor relations in the United States has been the rapid growth of the organization of public employees into structures for collective bargaining. Today's public employees have obviously concluded that enhancement of terms and conditions of employment can only be achieved through the negotiating process. The posture of public employees was in 1919 (the time period dealt with by Russell) an unthinkable concept insofar as it impinged upon the sovereignty of government. Moreover, it was deemed at that time that public employees were public servants who had no right to …