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Vested Seniority Rights: A Conceptual Approach, Francis A. Citera

University of Miami Law Review

Under contemporary jurisprudence, vested seniority rights are considered creatures of contract. As such, they generally are subject to "divestiture" with the termination of the collective-bargaining agreement. Relying upon Zdanok v. Glidden Co. and Locke's labor theory of property, the author argues that seniority rights are property rights derived from the worker's employment independent of the contract.

Labor Relations—Flsa Action Not Barred By Prior Arbitration, Patrick R. James

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Canadian Academic Tenure And Employment: An Uncertain Future?, Innis M. Christie, David J. Mullan

Dalhousie Law Journal

Canadian academic employment relationships can be said to fall into three categories: 1) The traditional "contract-statute" relationship 2) The collective bargaining relationship, and 3) The "special plan" relationship.1 What is the legal nature of each of these relationships and what are the implications of each? Which issues have proved, or could prove, sensitive in the "contract-statute" setting? Can collective agreements or special plans provide better solutions? These are the fundamental legal questions, but tenure issues loom so large that they tend to swallow up the other questions and answers.

Confidential Employees: A Recommendation For Uniformity, Thomas L. Mcginnis

Cleveland State Law Review

In NLRB v. Hendricks County Rural Electric Membership Corp., the Court held that there is a "reasonable basis in law for the Board's use of the 'labor nexus test." At the same time, the Court declined to address the issue of whether the limited implied exclusion is also proper. This Note will address that open question by tracing the legislative, administrative and judicial treatment of confidential employees. The mode of analysis will be chronological, commencing with the passage of the Act. The analysis will detail the development of the labor nexus standard and the limited implied exclusion and will examine …

Collective Bargaining And The Fiscal Crisis In New York City: Cooperation For Survival, Arvid Anderson, Marjorie A. London

Fordham Urban Law Journal

As a result of New York City's fiscal crisis in 1975, both the New York state legislature and Congress passed laws aimed at helping the city recover. As a result of this legislation, the federal and state governments became more involved in the city's affairs and were tasked with monitoring collective bargaining between the city and its employees. Labor and management in the public sector were forced to cooperate in order to get out of the financial predicament, and the city survived the crisis. This article examines the changes in collective bargaining laws and practices that occurred as a result …

First National Maintenance Corp. V. Nlrb: The Supreme Court Narrows Employers' Section 8(A)(5) Duty To Bargain

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Labor-Management Cooperation: The American Experience, Irving Herbert Siegel, Edgar Weinberg

Upjohn Press

Examines a variety of cooperative arrangements and the resulting problems and successes.

The Regulation Of Labor Unions, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

This year completes exactly a half century in the federalization and codification of American labor law. Before that the regulation of both the internal affairs and external relations of labor organizations was left largely to the individual states, usually through the application of common or nonstatutory law by the courts. One major exception was the railroad industry, whose patent importance to interstate commerce made it an acceptable subject for federal legislation like the Railway Labor Act.

The Labor-Bankruptcy Conflict: Rejection Of A Debtor's Collective Bargaining Agreement, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note examines the courts' accommodation of the labor and bankruptcy policies when a debtor in possession or trustee seeks to reject a collective bargaining agreement. Part I criticizes a series of recent cases that failed to confront the statutory conflict. If these courts had recognized the conflict between the language of the Bankruptcy Act (now the Code) and the Labor Act, they would have been forced to consider whether the labor and bankruptcy policies actually clashed. Part II finds that in most instances they do not, and argues that requiring the debtor in possession to bargain with the union …

Smith V. Hussman Refrigerator Company: Fair Representation And The Erosion Of Collective Values, Cynthia Grant Bowman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Proposal For Apportioning Damages In Fair Representation Suits, Kenneth B. Mcclain

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Apportionment of damages in fair representation suits represents one of the most unsettled issues in labor law today. Although the Supreme Court has attempted to establish a single "governing principle" for apportioning damages, lower courts have read this principle as authorizing two divergent standards for apportionments. Part I of this article traces the evolution from the Court's original standard presented in Vaca v. Sipes through two subsequent applications of that standard: the Czosek v. O'Mara standard, which interpreted Vaca as placing the bulk of damages on the employer, and Justice Stewart's standard taken from his concurrence in Hines v. Anchor …

Labor Law - National Labor Relations Act - Managerial Employees - University Faculty, Mary F. Dombrowski

Duquesne Law Review

The United States Supreme Court has held that full-time faculty members at Yeshiva University are managerial employees excluded from the protections of the National Labor Relations Act.

NLRB v. Yeshiva University, 444 U.S. 672 (1980).

The Role Of Law, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Book Chapters

In the early New Deal days, workers' placards in the coal fields proudly proclaimed, "President Roosevelt wants you to join the union." If not literally true, that boast was well within the bounds of poetic license. After the brief interval of federal laissez-faire treatment of labor relations ushered in by the Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932, the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act of 1935 declared the policy of the United States to be one of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining." Employers, but not unions, were forbidden to coerce or discriminate against employees because of their organizational activities. …

Protecting Retired Workers From Inflation: Collective Bargaining For Retiree Benefits, Richard M. Bank, Thomas C. Woodruff

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The purpose of this article is to explore whether the collective bargaining process in its present form, or with certain modifications, can provide workers with meaningful protection against inflation. Part I evaluates the adequacy of the collective bargaining process by examining the internal dynamics of unions, the interests of employers and the application of the doctrine of fair representation to collective bargaining. After concluding that the current system inadequately protects retirees, Part II proposes alternative methods to strengthen the role of retirees in the collective bargaining process.

Union Waiver Of Employee Rights Under The Nlra: Part I, Michael C. Harper

Faculty Scholarship

The author formulates a principle, based on the Supreme Court decision in NLRB v. Magnavox, to distinguish which employee rights protected by section 7 may not be waived by unions in collective bargaining agreements. In this article, the non-waiver principle is applied to the right to strike. In the next issue, Professor Harper will address application of the principle to Board deferral to arbitration, drawing on former Board Chairman Murphy's swing vote opinion in General American Transportation Corp.

Union Waiver Of Employee Rights Under The Nlra: Part Ii - A Fresh Approach To Board Deferral To Arbitration, Michael C. Harper

Faculty Scholarship

The author applies the non-waiverprinciple developed in Part I of this article to Board deferral to arbitration. Former Chairman Murphy's concurring opinion in General American Transportation Corp. is evaluated in light of the non- waiver princple. The author analyzes the issues not properly resolved in that opinion, while demonstrating its basic insight.

In Part 1 of this essay, I explored the implications of the Supreme Court's holding in NLRP v. Magnavox Co. that exclusive bargaining agents do not have the authority to waive certain rights protected by section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. Drawing on Magnavox, …

Contribution Between Parties To A Discriminatory Collective Bargaining Agreement, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note examines rules of title VII back pay liability and apportionment. Part I argues that all signatories to a discriminatory collective bargaining agreement should be jointly and severally liable to injured persons for back pay. Although a union or employer may object to joint and several liability if its opponent in collective bargaining proposed and bargained for the discriminatory term, the purposes of title VII require that the parties become jointly and severally liable upon signing the agreement. Since joint and several liability fully serves the compensatory purpose of the statute, Part II of the Note looks to deterrence …

Appropriate Bargaining Units In Non-Profit Hospitals

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Successor Employer's Obligation To Bargain: Current Problems In The Presumption Of A Union's Majority Status, Peter Blasier

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note examines federal labor policy as it relates to successor employers' duty to negotiate with the labor union of the previous employer. Specifically, this Note analyzes the impact that the successor employers' right to refuse to negotiate if it has a "good faith doubt" that the union retains its majority status has on employee's freedom of choice. Finally, it examines national labor policy and concludes that the policy of the National Labor Relations Board unduly "sacrifices the determination of actual employee free choice."

The Professor As Manager In The Academic Enterprise, Stephen R. Ripps

Cleveland State Law Review

This article will examine the problems which arise when the NLRA is applied to institutions of higher education, and how the decisions by the NLRB have not been appropriately sensitive to these problems-particularly in the area of faculty organization. This article will also discuss the Supreme Court's decision in NLRB v. Yeshiva University which held that faculty members at the university were "managerial employees" and thereby excluded from coverage under the Act. This discussion will show that the Board's approach to this problem has been irrational and further demonstrates why the NLRB should never have assumed jurisdiction over institutions of …

The Professor As Manager In The Academic Enterprise, Stephen R. Ripps

Cleveland State Law Review

This article will examine the problems which arise when the NLRA is applied to institutions of higher education, and how the decisions by the NLRB have not been appropriately sensitive to these problems-particularly in the area of faculty organization. This article will also discuss the Supreme Court's decision in NLRB v. Yeshiva University which held that faculty members at the university were "managerial employees" and thereby excluded from coverage under the Act. This discussion will show that the Board's approach to this problem has been irrational and further demonstrates why the NLRB should never have assumed jurisdiction over institutions of …

Student Employees And Collective Bargaining, Martin H. Malin

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

University Faculty And The Institution Of Collective Bargaining, Thomas C. Fenton

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

National Labor Policy: Reflections And Distortions Of Social Justice, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

The impulse behind much of American labor law is profoundly moral. The sufferings and indignities inflicted on working men, women, and even children as the industrial revolution enveloped the western world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led many thoughtful observers to focus their attention on what was commonly called the "social question." Certain issues have been treated almost as if they posed questions of good and evil, when all they actually presented were problems of finding a proper balance of power between labor and management. This article shall develop these themes in several specific contexts.

Nlrb Determination Of Incumbent Unions' Majority Status, C. Frederick Lebaron Jr.

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Union Decisions On Collective Bargaining Goals: A Proposal For Interest Group Participation, Eileen Silverstein

Michigan Law Review

This Article assesses the consequences of unions' virtually unrestrained power to set bargaining priorities and to reconcile antagonisms among the workers they represent. It then evaluates the function that economic interest groups within unions might serve if workers were encouraged to form interest groups and these groups were recognized as legitimate mechanisms for meeting the diverse needs of a heterogeneous workforce.

Industrial Democracy: America's Unfulfilled Promise, Clyde W. Summers

Cleveland State Law Review

We have relied so completely on collective bargaining that we have given almost no thought to other ways of moving toward the goal of industrial democracy. Indeed, there is almost an instinctive reaction to any suggestions of alternatives. We must now face the unwelcome fact that collective bargaining is incomplete, and we must fill the places it has not reached. This article has presents not so much proposals to be adopted, but possibilities to be explored. The purpose here is not to reach conclusions, but to urge a beginning.

Union Decisions On Collective Bargaining Goals: A Proposal For Interest Group Participation, Eileen Silverstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Compelling Collective Bargaining Under Section 106) Of The National Labor Relations Act

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Private University Professors And Nlrb V. Yeshiva: The Second Circuit's Misconception Of Shared Authority And Supervisory Status, Terry A. Bethel

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.