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Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Benefits May Be Gifts, Christopher Cobb
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Benefits May Be Gifts, Christopher Cobb
Michigan Law Review
Taxpayer received assistance from a labor union while he was participating in a strike called by the union. The area in which he lived had become a distressed area as a consequence of the strike, and the union had established a general program of aid for strikers with no other source of income. Both before and after he joined the union payments were made to taxpayer under this program. Taxpayer sued for a refund of the income tax he payed on the value of the assistance so received, and the jury returned a verdict in his favor, finding the payments …
Unemployment Compensation - Labor Dispute Disqualification - Workers Unemployed By A Mult-Employer Lockout, James B. Blanchard S.Ed.
Unemployment Compensation - Labor Dispute Disqualification - Workers Unemployed By A Mult-Employer Lockout, James B. Blanchard S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Two unions of restaurant employees voted to strike the local restaurant industry in order to obtain a more favorable master contract with a restaurant owners' association. The unions executed this program by strategically calling strikes on only a few key restaurants. The association retaliated by notifying its members to lay off their employees in accordance with its previously announced policy to consider a called strike against one member a called strike against all members. The California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board held that the union employees laid off in response to the association's notice were "voluntarily'' out of work and therefore …
Labor Law - Collective Bargaining - Union's Unprotected Harassing Activites As A Refusal To Bargain In Good Faith, William Y. Webb
Labor Law - Collective Bargaining - Union's Unprotected Harassing Activites As A Refusal To Bargain In Good Faith, William Y. Webb
Michigan Law Review
While bargaining for a new contract, the union announced that it would engage in a "work-without-contract" program designed to harass the insurance company employer into accepting its demands, in the event that no agreement was reached prior to the expiration of the existing contract. When that contingency occurred, the program was instituted consisting of such activities as refusing to write new business for a period, refusing to do customary duties, engaging in "sit-in mornings," soliciting policyholder support against the company, and mass demonstrations at the company's home office. The union continued to attend bargaining sessions, but it informed its members …
Internal Affairs Of Labor Unions Under The Labor Reform Act Of 1959, Archibald Cox
Internal Affairs Of Labor Unions Under The Labor Reform Act Of 1959, Archibald Cox
Michigan Law Review
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 has two main divisions. One deals with the internal affairs of labor organizations and, incidentally, with certain dishonest practices in labor-management relations tending to corrupt union officials. The other deals with labor-management relations as such. This article is confined to the first branch.
Labor Law - Arbitration - Necessity Of According Individual Employees Right To Independent Representation In Arbitration Proceeding, Alan E. Price
Labor Law - Arbitration - Necessity Of According Individual Employees Right To Independent Representation In Arbitration Proceeding, Alan E. Price
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiffs, employees of defendant corporation, were demoted from supervisory positions back into the bargaining unit. The collective bargaining agreement defined seniority as "an employee's length of service with the company in years, months and days." The employer credited plaintiffs with continuous seniority from the time they had originally begun work with the company in non-supervisory positions. Defendant union contended that time spent in supervisory positions should be excluded from seniority. The dispute was submitted to arbitration without plaintiffs being given notice of the proceedings or opportunity to participate. The arbitration award adopted the position urged by the union. Plaintiffs brought …