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Challenging Discriminatory Guesswork: Does Impact Analysis Apply, Michael A. Middleton

Faculty Publications

This article initially examines the traditional theories of proof in Title VII cases. It then discusses approaches by lower courts in resolving the competing concerns raised in applying those traditional theories in challenges to subjective selection devices. This article next discusses the Supreme Court's resolution of the problem in Watson and suggests a workable alternative resolution that will not undermine the broad prophylactic purposes of Title VII.

Baseline Questions In Legal Reasoning: The Example Of Property In Jobs, Jack M. Beermann, Joseph William Singer

Faculty Scholarship

In what follows, we critique at-will employment by focusing on the baselines that underlie the analysis. Our ultimate goal is to develop persuasive arguments to move courts and businesses to provide greater job security for workers. One possible reason the courts have been so reluctant to change employment law is that judges analyze job security issues from the standpoint of a series of baselines which have the effect of creating a presumption against job security that is almost impossible to overcome. These baseline assumptions effectively place the burden of proof on advocates of job security.

Judges fail to recognize that …

"Discrimination" On The Basis Of Religion: An Examination Of Attempted Value Neutrality In Employment, Laura S. Underkuffler

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Rational Decisions And Regulation Of Union Entry, Keith N. Hylton, Maria O'Brien

Faculty Scholarship

More than a decade after the publication of Law and Reality, the debate continues over the proper scope of election campaign regulation under the National Labor Relations Act (the "Act"). The issue has been whether employer efforts to dissuade employees from electing a union to represent them in collective bargaining actually influence the outcomes of elections. Several academic lawyers and social scientists have criticized one aspect or another of the Getman, Goldberg and Herman results (hereinafter the "Getman Study"), suggesting that many employer tactics have no effect on election outcomes, and that such tactics should not be regulated by …

Aspects Of Labor Law Affecting Labor-Management Cooperation In The Railroad And Airline Industries, Henry H. Perritt Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Future Of Wrongful Dismissal Claims: Where Does Employer Self Interest Lie?, Henry H. Perritt Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Evolving Law Of Agency Shop In The Public Sector, Martin H. Malin

All Faculty Scholarship

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Property And Suffrage In The Early American Republic, Robert J. Steinfeld

Journal Articles

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United States Report: The Protection Of Worker's Rights In The Event Of Insolvency And Business Reorganization: A Symposium, Phillip Blumberg

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Judicial Backpedaling: Putting The Brakes On California's Law Of Wrongful Termination, Lawrence C. Levine

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Self, Others, And Section 7: Mutualism And Protected Protest Activities Under The National Labor Relations Act, Michael Fischl

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Labor, Management And The First Amendment: Whose Rights Are These Anyway?, Michael Fischl

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Reports, Awards, And Opinions 1989-3, Eric J. Schmertz

Eric J. Schmertz Selected Reports, Awards and Opinions, 1967-2006 Special Collection

Documents include arbitration awards and decisions written by Eric J. Schmertz as arbitrator of labor disputes between workers and management of Trans World Airlines, Incorporated, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Union Carbide Corporation, and Western Massachusetts Electric Company.

Reports, Awards, And Opinions 1989-1, Eric J. Schmertz

Eric J. Schmertz Selected Reports, Awards and Opinions, 1967-2006 Special Collection

Documents include arbitration awards and decisions written by Eric J. Schmertz as arbitrator of labor disputes between workers and management of American Airlines, the Boston Edison Company, BOCES Staff Association, an members of Local No. 270, Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, among others.

Reports, Awards, And Opinions 1989-2, Eric J. Schmertz

Eric J. Schmertz Selected Reports, Awards and Opinions, 1967-2006 Special Collection

Documents include arbitration awards and decisions written by Eric J. Schmertz as arbitrator of labor disputes between workers and management of Manhattanville Nursing Care Center, Inc., New York Bus Service, The New York Stock Exchange, and Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, among others.

Title Vii : Application Of Impact Analysis To Subjective Employment Criteria, 24 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 264 (1989), Karen H. Cross

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Work On A Labor Theory Of Meaning, Kenneth M. Casebeer

Articles

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At-Will Employment: An Overview, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

The most dramatic development of the last decade has been the rapid judicial expansion of modifications in at-will employment doctrine.

Constitutional Values And The Adjudication Of Taft-Hartley Act Dues Objector Cases, Roger C. Hartley

Scholarly Articles

The thesis of this Article is that, now conscripted into the fray, the NLRB must consider free speech and association values embodied in the Constitution and laws when deciding Taft-Hartley dues objector issues. Only then can the NLRB fulfill its congressional mandate, recently discovered and described in Beck, to develop a coherent body of law that accommodates potentially explosive confrontations between dues objectors' right of free expressive association and the union majority's statutory right to organize and bargain collectively on behalf of all represented employees, including dues objectors.

To develop this thesis, the threshold task is to demonstrate that although …

"As Best To Subserve Their Own Interests": Lemuel Shaw, Labor Conspiracy, And Fellow Servants, Alfred S. Konefsky

Journal Articles

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Conflict Resolution In Industrial Relations, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Book Chapters

Only about one-fifth of the American labor force is unionized. With certain important exceptions, therefore, no formal machinery exists to resolve the various disputes that arise between a majority of the country's workers and their employers. The exception, which will not be treated in detail in this study, relate to (1) the right to organize into unions, which has been protected in most of the private sector since 1935 by the National Labor Relations Act and in the public sector since the 1960s by federal law and regulation covering U.S. Government employees and by statutes in about thirty states covering …

Dispute Resolution Between The General Motors Corporation And The United Automobile Workers, 1970-1982, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Book Chapters

At the end of 1982 the active membership of the United Automobile Workers stood at 1.25 million workers, belonging to about 1,600 local unions in the United States and Canada. There were 1.14 million Americans and 115,000 Canadians. Women accounted for 170,000 memberships in the two countries. A fifth or more of the total may have been retired members. The UAW ranks as the largest manufacturing union, ahead of the United Steelworkers, but behind three unions representing truckers, school teachers, and retail employees. Substantially all the blue-collar workers in the domestic auto industry have been organized, the vast majority by …

Panel Discussion: Second Annual Corporate Symposium, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, John J. Murphy

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This Panel Discussion took place as a part of the Second Annual Corporate Symposium, Beyond Collective Bargaining and Employment at Will: Discharging Employees in the 1990s, at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 9, 1989.

A Probit Model Of Nlrb Bargaining Order Cases In The Appellate Courts, Terry A. Bethel, C. A, Melfi

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This study examines NLRB bargaining orders that have gone to appeals courts and ascertains what factors influence whether or not the order is enforced and to what degree these factors influence the likelihood of enforcement. Substantial information has been collected from each reported appellate decision that reviewed NLRB bargaining orders issued over a four-year period. A probit regression model is employed to examine whether factors related to an employer's unfair labor practice campaign are involved in the circuit court's enforcement decisions or if more weight is given to unrelated factors, such as the circuit in which the appeal is heard …

Federal Labor Rights And Access To Private Property: The Nlrb And The Right To Exclude, Dianne Avery

Journal Articles

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The Crisis Of Private Law Is Not An Ideal Situation, Kenneth M. Casebeer

Articles

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Drafting Wagner's Act: Leon Keyserling And The Precommittee Drafts Of The Labor Disputes Act And The National Labor Relations Act, Kenneth M. Casebeer

Articles

This Article analyzes the development of the National Labor Relations Act through the drafts of the original Act. The author traces the evolution of Senator Wagner's ideas through numerous policy and political battles to the passage of the NLRA in 1935. The author explores the development of the drafts and the historical context surrounding their creation to reveal the social theory of the drafters and illuminate previously unexplored undercurrents in the text of the Act itself. The author, through this novel approach to the NLRA, sets up a new way to view the 1935 Act, and evaluates subsequent amendments and …

Erisa: The Arbitrary And Capricious Rule Under Siege, George Lee Flint Jr

Faculty Articles

While ERISA sets forth an explicit standard that the plan administrator’s actions must meet those of a prudent man acting in like circumstances, courts have applied the arbitrary and capricious standard of review to administrator decisions. Courts should apply the arbitrary and capricious standard only when dealing with disinterested plan administrators acting properly under ERISA. The arbitrary and capricious rule was applied to post-ERISA decisions as a continuation of the pre-ERISA precedent, which established the rule through the continued development of common law from union negotiated employee benefit plans decided under the Labor Management Relations Act. Unfortunately, this continuation of …

Major Operational Decisions And Free Collective Bargaining: Eliminating The Mandatory/Permissive Distinction, James R. Rasband

Faculty Scholarship

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Watson V. Ft. Worth Bank And Trust: The Changing Face Of Disparate Impact, Linda H. Edwards

Scholarly Works

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 constitutes this country’s first serious commitment to eradicating the enormous economic disadvantages caused by hundreds of years of racial and gender-related prejudice. But there is also cause for concern. While members of once excluded groups have entered the mid-level workforce, most have not progressed to top-level positions. Perhaps not surprisingly, the elimination of barriers to mid-level employment has spotlighted the unique barriers to equal employment in top-level jobs. Title VII’s capacity to deal effectively with these barriers will be its major challenge for the next quarter-century. Its success will depend, in …