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Panel 2: The Nlrb, Unions, Courts, And Democracy, Elizabeth L. Macdowell, Matthew Dimick, Charlotte Garden, Ryan Mcginley Stempel, Ann C. Mcginley, Brishen Rogers
Panel 2: The Nlrb, Unions, Courts, And Democracy, Elizabeth L. Macdowell, Matthew Dimick, Charlotte Garden, Ryan Mcginley Stempel, Ann C. Mcginley, Brishen Rogers
Matthew Dimick
Moderator: Elizabeth MacDowell Matthew Dimick: Unions, Employers and Social Policy Preferences Charlotte Garden: Union Made: Labor's Litigation for Broad Social Change Ryan McGinley Stempel & Ann McGinley: Facebook and Concerted Activity: A Renewal of Democracy at Work? Brishen Rogers: Passion and Reason in Labor Law
Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick
Revitalizing Union Democracy: Labor Law, Bureaucracy, And Workplace Association, Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick
Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions in the United States? Union democracy is likely an essential precondition for the broader strategic and organizational changes unions must undertake in order to recruit new union members — the labor movement’s cardinal priority. Yet according to widely accepted wisdom, the weakness of democracy within labor unions is the unavoidable outcome of an “iron law of oligarchy” that operates in all such membership-based organizations. This Article challenges this conventional thinking and argues that the triumph of oligarchy over democracy in US labor unions is not inevitable, …
Labor Law, New Governance, And The Ghent System, Matthew Dimick
Labor Law, New Governance, And The Ghent System, Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) was the most significant legislation proposed for reforming the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in over a generation and the centerpiece of the American labor movement’s revitalization strategy. Yet EFCA hews closely to the particular regulatory model established by the NLRA at the peak of the New Deal, now over seventy-five years ago. Further, recent scholarship suggests that traditional regulatory approaches are giving way to new kinds of governance methods for addressing social problems. Rather than reviving an old regulatory model, should “New Governance” approaches instead be sought for addressing problems in employment representation? …