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Michigan Law Review

1942

Coercion

Labor and Employment Law

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Labor Law -Loss Of Majority Support By Representative With Whom Employer Has Been Ordered To Bargain, Charles J. O' Laughlin Jun 1942

Labor Law -Loss Of Majority Support By Representative With Whom Employer Has Been Ordered To Bargain, Charles J. O' Laughlin

Michigan Law Review

The National Labor Relations Board found that the employer (respondent) had been guilty of unfair labor practices by interfering with the employees' right to unionize and by refusing to bargain collectively with the Pioneer Tobacco Workers' Local Industrial Union No. 55 when the latter had been designated as the bargaining agent by a majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit. During the proceedings before the board a motion for leave to intervene was filed by an independent union claiming the support of a majority of the employees, but the motion was denied by the board. The board ordered …


Company Unions Under The National Labor Relations Act, Burton Crager Apr 1942

Company Unions Under The National Labor Relations Act, Burton Crager

Michigan Law Review

Any discussion of the legal aspects of company unionism under the National Labor Relations Act necessitates some consideration of the economic and political background of this type of unionism. Periods of labor unrest have been particularly prolific in mushrooming the growth of company unions. During World War I, the National War Labor Board found itself faced time after time with strife between employers and "outside" unions over the existence of company unions, which frequently were engendered by the employers' antagonism toward bona fide unions. Upon the demise of that board at the close of the war, and the concurrent end …