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The Workers' Constitution, Luke Norris
The Workers' Constitution, Luke Norris
Law Faculty Publications
This Article argues that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, Social Security Act of 1935, and Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 should be understood as a “workers’ constitution.” The Article tells the history of how a connected wave of social movements responded to the insecurity that wage earners faced after the Industrial Revolution and Great Depression by working with government officials to bring about federal collective bargaining rights, wage and hour legislation, and social security legislation. It argues that the statutes are tied together as a set of “small c” constitutional commitments in both their histories and theory. …
Unions And Urinalysis, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Unions And Urinalysis, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Faculty Scholarship
Many private employers seem to be busy deciding whether and how to test employees for drug use. Presumably most of these decisions are made by management acting alone. However, in unionized workplaces—one out of five private sector employees are represented by unions—federal labor law prescribes a different method. That method features collective bargaining by unions and management to set the rules, the use of a private third-party neutral to resolve disputes which arise under those rules (arbitration), and relatively little involvement by the government (the National Labor Relations Board, legislatures, and the courts). This system that labor law prescribes for …
Recent Decisions Of The Supreme Court In Labor Law, David S. Bogen
Recent Decisions Of The Supreme Court In Labor Law, David S. Bogen
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Pt. 1, Fowler V. Harper
Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Pt. 1, Fowler V. Harper
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Pt. 3, Fowler V. Harper
Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Pt. 3, Fowler V. Harper
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.