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Labor and Employment Law

Michigan Law Review

Journal

1953

Taft-Hartley Act

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Labor Law-Labor-Management Relations Act-Emergency Strike Provisions, Walter H. Weiner S.Ed. May 1953

Labor Law-Labor-Management Relations Act-Emergency Strike Provisions, Walter H. Weiner S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Suit by the United States, under authority of the National Emergency provisions of Title II of the Labor-Management Relations Act, to enjoin a strike in a single plant engaged in the manufacture of pipe used in the construction of atomic energy plants. The district court granted an injunction, and the labor organizations adversely affected thereby appealed. Held, affirmed. The threatened strike would have affected a substantial part of the atomic weapon industry and would have imperiled the national safety. United States v. United Steelworkers of America, C.I.O., (2d Cir. 1953) 202 F. (2d) 132.


Labor Law-Class Action By Labor Union Members To Enforce Collective Bargaining Agreement-Jurisdiction Of State Courts, John Houck S.Ed. Feb 1953

Labor Law-Class Action By Labor Union Members To Enforce Collective Bargaining Agreement-Jurisdiction Of State Courts, John Houck S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was an employee of defendant corporation, and an officer of the union accredited as bargaining agent. He brought an equity suit in the Ohio courts for specific enforcement of a collective bargaining agreement and to collect back wages, on behalf of himself and other union members similarly situated. The basis of the suit was section 11257 of the Ohio General Code, providing for class actions. The lower court dismissed the petition on the grounds of no jurisdiction under that section. On appeal, held, reversed. Although the defendant corporation's activities in interstate commerce subject it to federal labor legislation, …