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Boston University School of Law

Faculty Scholarship

1998

National Labor Relations Act

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The Continuing Relevance Of Section 8 (A) (2) To The Contemporary Workplace, Michael C. Harper Aug 1998

The Continuing Relevance Of Section 8 (A) (2) To The Contemporary Workplace, Michael C. Harper

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In this article I evaluate the claims of the critics of the current section 8(a)(2). I do so, as I believe would Professor St. Antoine, 14 with an eye toward the historical development of new production systems in America and the concomitant development of personnel policies to fit those systems. I consider the purposes for which firm managers seemed to establish and control employee advisory committees before passage of the NLRA and the purposes for which managers seem to establish and control such committees in today's economy. I conclude that these purposes have not substantially changed. Managers before passage of …


Defining The Economic Relationship Appropriate For Collective Bargaining, Michael C. Harper Mar 1998

Defining The Economic Relationship Appropriate For Collective Bargaining, Michael C. Harper

Faculty Scholarship

These are, of course, difficult times for those who share the goals of the framers of the original National Labor Relations Act (the "NLRA" or "Act") .' As union density in the private sector has continued to decline2 and as the NLRA has proven helpless against the economic developments that have generated continuing employer resistance to collective bargaining, the original vision of the Wagner Congress must seem myopic and shaded with an excessively optimistic tint. Observing these economic developments and the enhanced impediments to union organization that they have posed makes it clear that only a much different statute …