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Democracy In The Private Sector: The Rights Of Shareholders And Union Members, Michael Goldberg
Democracy In The Private Sector: The Rights Of Shareholders And Union Members, Michael Goldberg
Michael J Goldberg
In the years since Enron, there has been a lively debate over the value of shareholder democracy as a means to improve corporate performance and reduce the likelihood of future Enrons or Lehman Brothers. That debate has been enriched by comparative scholarship looking at corporate governance abroad, and comparing corporate governance with public government. This Article explores a different comparison, between corporations and their sometime adversaries across bargaining tables and picket lines – labor unions. More specifically, this article compares the regulation of corporate governance and the regulation of the internal affairs of unions, and the rights of shareholders and …
Gridlock At The Nlrb: One Step Back, Two Steps Further Back, Michael J. Goldberg
Gridlock At The Nlrb: One Step Back, Two Steps Further Back, Michael J. Goldberg
Michael J Goldberg
No abstract provided.
Senate Gridlock Cripples Nlrb, Michael Goldberg
Senate Gridlock Cripples Nlrb, Michael Goldberg
Michael J Goldberg
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Present At The Creation: Clyde W. Summers And The Field Of Union Democracy Law, Michael J. Goldberg
Present At The Creation: Clyde W. Summers And The Field Of Union Democracy Law, Michael J. Goldberg
Michael J Goldberg
This article describes and analyzes the contributions of Professor Clyde W. Summers to the development of union democracy law in the United States and his contributions to the movement dedicated to bringing more democratic practices to American unions. The first part of the article evaluates Summers' writings on the importance of democracy in the labor movement. The second part describes Summers' work as both a scholar and public policy activist shaping the law of union democracy, including his critical role in the drafting of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. The final part of the article examines Summers …
In The Cause Of Union Democracy, Michael J. Goldberg
In The Cause Of Union Democracy, Michael J. Goldberg
Michael J Goldberg
This article is part of a symposium entitled "The Employment and Labor Law Professor as Public Intellectual: Sharing our Work with the World," based on presentations at the 2008 meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. The article describes the cause to which I have devoted a good part of my career, both inside and outside the halls of academia: the struggle to make the labor movement more democratic and more responsive to its members. While this piece briefly describes how I became involved in this cause, and how my work on its behalf has contributed to both my …
Derailing Union Democracy: Why Deregulation Would Be A Mistake, Michael J. Goldberg
Derailing Union Democracy: Why Deregulation Would Be A Mistake, Michael J. Goldberg
Michael J Goldberg
This article is a response to Prof. Samuel Estreicher’s article, Deregulating Union Democracy, 21 J. LAB. RES. 247 (2000). It argues against Estreicher’s call for the deregulation of internal union affairs by repealing the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 on several grounds. First, it disputes some of Estreicher’s basic assumptions about the nature and effectiveness of union democracy legislation, in part because Estreicher views unions strictly as economic entities and overlooks their important political and social functions, and in part because he is mistaken when he dismisses the current scheme of regulating internal union affairs as completely ineffectual. …