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The Continuing Relevance Of Section 8 (A) (2) To The Contemporary Workplace, Michael C. Harper
The Continuing Relevance Of Section 8 (A) (2) To The Contemporary Workplace, Michael C. Harper
Faculty Scholarship
In this article I evaluate the claims of the critics of the current section 8(a)(2). I do so, as I believe would Professor St. Antoine, 14 with an eye toward the historical development of new production systems in America and the concomitant development of personnel policies to fit those systems. I consider the purposes for which firm managers seemed to establish and control employee advisory committees before passage of the NLRA and the purposes for which managers seem to establish and control such committees in today's economy. I conclude that these purposes have not substantially changed. Managers before passage of …
Defining The Economic Relationship Appropriate For Collective Bargaining, Michael C. Harper
Defining The Economic Relationship Appropriate For Collective Bargaining, Michael C. Harper
Faculty Scholarship
These are, of course, difficult times for those who share the goals of the framers of the original National Labor Relations Act (the "NLRA" or "Act") .' As union density in the private sector has continued to decline2 and as the NLRA has proven helpless against the economic developments that have generated continuing employer resistance to collective bargaining, the original vision of the Wagner Congress must seem myopic and shaded with an excessively optimistic tint. Observing these economic developments and the enhanced impediments to union organization that they have posed makes it clear that only a much different statute …
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism By Labor Unions, Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism By Labor Unions, Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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How The Wagner Act Came To Be: A Prospectus, Theodore J. St. Antoine
How The Wagner Act Came To Be: A Prospectus, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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The Wagner Act of 1935, the original National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), has been called "perhaps the most radical piece of legislation ever enacted by the United States Congress."' But Supreme Court interpretations supposedly frustrated the utopian aspirations for a radical restructuring of the workplace." Similarly, according to another commentator, unnecessary language in one of the Court's earliest NLRA cases "drastically undercut the new act's protection of the critical right to strike."'