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Labor and Employment Law

University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Law Review

1948

Taft-Hartley Act

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Labor Law - "Channeling" The Duty To Bargain - Effect Of Violation Of "No-Strike" Clause In Existing Agreement, John F. Buchman S.Ed. May 1948

Labor Law - "Channeling" The Duty To Bargain - Effect Of Violation Of "No-Strike" Clause In Existing Agreement, John F. Buchman S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Employer and union had an existing collective agreement which provided detailed procedures for adjusting grievances, including arbitration as the final step, and contained a no-strike clause. Disputes arose concerning action taken by the employer affecting working schedules, overtime work, and other conditions of employment without consulting the union; and disciplinary measures were taken against certain employees in pursuance of the new working rules. The union finally called a strike, without filing grievances according to the contract procedure on the disputes which were the immediate causes of the strike. The employer discontinued hearings on two pending grievances and refused to negotiate …


Labor Law-Torts-Liability Of Labor Union For Inducing Breach Of Contract, Ira M. Price, Ii S.Ed. Jan 1948

Labor Law-Torts-Liability Of Labor Union For Inducing Breach Of Contract, Ira M. Price, Ii S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

During the past fifteen years the law as a whole has moved rapidly in the direction of favoring union activity. A labor policy expressed in numerous federal and state laws and important judicial decisions has generally recognized and protected in the courts the workers' right to be free from employer interference, to strike, to engage in peaceful picketing, and to conduct primary boycotts. Within this liberalizing judicial concept of the rights of labor, the present status of the action against labor unions for inducing breach of contract presents an interesting study of the tenacity of an early common law theory …


Labor Law-Constitutionality Of Statutes Prohibiting "Hot Goods" And "Secondary" Boycotts, Jerry S. Mccroskey Jan 1948

Labor Law-Constitutionality Of Statutes Prohibiting "Hot Goods" And "Secondary" Boycotts, Jerry S. Mccroskey

Michigan Law Review

In a contempt action against the business agent of an A.F.L. furniture and van workers local for violation of an injunction based on statutes prohibiting "hot goods" and "secondary" boycotts, held, petitioner discharged; the statutes are violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution in prohibiting peaceful picketing or other publication of the facts concerning a labor dispute in pursuance of an "agreement or combination to cause" any employee to stop handling certain goods or to put pressure on his employer to do so. ln re Blaney, (Cal.1947) 184P. (2d) 892.