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Labor Law-Labor-Management Relations Act-Effect Of Affirmative Deauthorization Vote Upon Existing Union-Shop Contract, Richard D. Rohr S.Ed.
Labor Law-Labor-Management Relations Act-Effect Of Affirmative Deauthorization Vote Upon Existing Union-Shop Contract, Richard D. Rohr S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
One month after the employer and the union entered into a two-year contract containing a union-shop provision, a group of employees filed a petition under section 9(e)(1) of the NLRA as amended in 1951 seeking an election to rescind the union's authority to make a union-shop agreement. The union argued (1) that the contract was a bar to the election and (2) that even if an immediate election was ordered and an affirmative deauthorization vote cast, the existing union-shop clause should be held effective during the remainder of the contract term. The Board ruled, 3/2, that section 9(e)(1) as …