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Lectures On The Law And Labor-Management Relations, University Of Michigan Law School

Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law

The 1950 Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law recognized the great importance, all over the world, of the problems of labor-management relations and the accelerating pace of development of labor law. The Institute sought, through the techniques of lecture, comment, and panel discussion, to provide a basis for an informed appraisal of some of the most challenging questions in this area.

For the most part the program dealt with the problems arising in the attempt in the United States and in other countries to develop and apply legal standards to labor-management relations. Underlying the legal framework, however, are major …

Labor Law-Veteran's Reemployment Rights-Duration Of Seniority Beyond One Year Period, Donald D. Davis S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

At the time of his induction into the Armed Forces, plaintiff was employed as a locomotive machinist at defendant's Loyall shop. This shop was transferred to Corbin during his absence, and, upon discharge from military service, plaintiff was reemployed there with seniority from July 17, 1946, the date of his return. In April, 1947, plaintiff filed his complaint under section 8, Selective Training and Service Act, alleging that had he not been in the Armed Forces he would have been transferred to the Corbin shop with seniority from July 1, 1945. The collective bargaining agent of the machinist employees of …

Delegation Of Power To Fix Prevailing Wages With Collective Bargaining Agreement As The Standard, Dempsey A. Cox

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Negotiation, Mediation And Especially Arbitration In Labor Disputes, Marlyn E. Lugar

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Spero: Government As Employer, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of GOVERNMENT AS EMPLOYER. By Sterling Spero.

Enforcibility Of Arbitration Clauses In Collective Bargaining Agreements, Catherine E. Gillis

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Labor Law--Labor-Management Relations Act--Union Unfair Labor Practices--Strike To Force Employer To Agree To Union Hiring Hall, L. B. Lea S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In negotiating collective bargaining contracts for 1948, respondents (National Maritime Union and its officers) insisted, as a condition precedent to entering into any agreement, upon continuation of existing hiring hall provisions. After refusal of the employers to agree to such proposal, respondents called a strike. Upon filing of charges of union unfair labor practice with the N.L.R.B., held, respondents' activities constituted violations of sections 8 (b) ( 2) and 8 (b) (3), but not of section 8 (b) (1) (A) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act. Member Gray dissented from the 8(b) …

The Taft-Hartley Law, Willett H. Parr Jr.

Indiana Law Journal

Address delivered at Evansville at the Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, September 5, 1947.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to note or review briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.

The Duration Of Certifications By The National Labor Relations Board And The Doctrine Of Administrative Stability, Bernard Cushman

Michigan Law Review

The National Labor Relations Act has recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. A decade is a short time in the life of a statute and the process of interpretation of an act which marked a new approach to labor relations problems is far from ended . In fashioning the mosaic of statute and decision which constitutes the basic law for our varied industrial communities, the National Labor Relations Board has had to deal with difficult and diverse problems. Not the least important of these questions comprise those involving the duration of the validity of its certifications.

Labor Law - Appropriate Bargaining Unit - Appropriateness Of Multiple-Plant Unit Where Majority In One Plant Oppose Such Unit, Oliver B. Crager

Michigan Law Review

The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., a Pennsylvania corporation, had six plants in its plate glass division located in five scattered states. In 1938 a C. I. O. affiliate filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board that the company had violated the National Labor Relations Act by dominating and interfering with a company union at the Missouri plant. The company union was not a party to the proceeding. The company consented to a stipulation and consent decree directing it to cease and desist from dominating or recognizing the company union. Shortly thereafter in certification proceedings, the board held that …

Labor Law - Power Of The Nlrb To Order Employer To Reimburse Employees For Sums Deducted From Their Wages To Support An Employer-Dominated Union, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was engaged in a business affecting interstate commerce and was found by the National Labor Relations Board to have dominated and interfered with the administration of an employees' association. The board ordered defendant to reimburse its employees for sums deducted from their wages for association dues and assessments since the effective date of the National Labor Relations Act. The board petitioned to enforce the order. Held, a reimbursement of the money paid to the association by means of the checkoff was not authorized by the statute, and would violate the fundamental principles of equity. The dissenting judge contended …

The Evolution Of The "Duty To Bargain" Concept In American Law, Russell A. Smith

Michigan Law Review

Promotion of collective bargaining appears to be a governmental policy borne of the travails of economic emergency during World War I, though it was somewhat foreshadowed by the earlier attempt in the Erdman Act of 1898 to outlaw the "yellow-dog'' contract. It first gained recognition by certain of the individual branches of the administration II and was subsequently suggested as an over-all policy, along with recognition of the right of self-organization and other principles, by the War Labor Conference Board. This board was appointed in January, 1918, by the Secretary of Labor and consisted of nominees of the National Industrial …

Administrative Law - National Labor Relations Board - Permissible Scope Of Cease And Desist Orders, Rex B. Martin

Michigan Law Review

The National Labor Relations Board found that the Express Publishing Company had refused to bargain collectively. Thereupon the board issued an order requiring the company: (1) to cease and desist refusing to bargain collectively; and (2) to cease and desist in any manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing its employees in the exercise of their rights to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities for the purposes of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection as guaranteed in section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. The circuit …

The Legal Significance Of Labor Contracts Under The National Labor Relations Act, William Gorham Rice Jr.

Michigan Law Review

The National Labor Relations Act was passed, as it declares in its first section, to encourage "the practice and procedure of collective bargaining'' and to give workers freedom to designate "representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment"; and the last of the unfair labor practices named in section 8 is for an employer "to refuse to bargain collectively." Bargaining and negotiating, the National Labor Relations Board has repeatedly declared, must be done in good faith. Discussion is not true negotiation or bargaining. For the employer to bargain in good faith …

Labor Law-Power Of National Labor Relations Board To Order Disestablishment Of Company Union, Wayne E. Babler

Michigan Law Review

In two recent Supreme Court cases, National Labor Relations Board v. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, lnc., and National Labor Relations Board v. Pacific Greyhound Lines, lnc., it was held that the Board had the power under section 10 (c) to order an employer, who had created, fostered and dominated a labor organization of its employees, to withdraw recognition from such organization of its employees, to withdraw recognition from such organization as representative of the employees and to post notices that it was "so disestablished." In so doing the Court reversed the respective circuit courts which had held the Board was …

Collective Labor Agreements Under Administrative Regulation Of Employment, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

National Industrial Recovery Act - President's Re-Employment Agreement - Injunction By Labor Union

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a Wisconsin labor union, was granted a temporary injunction restraining defendant shoe company, a party to the President's Re-employment Agreement, from "further interference with the right of its employes to organize into unions of their own free will and choice" and from "interfering with . . . the freedom of its employes in the designation of representatives of their own choice for the purpose of bargaining collectively" with the company. The court decided that defendant had violated its agreement with the President to comply with section 7 (a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act. This last was based on …

Protection Of The German System Of Controlling Employment By Collective Agreement, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The French Law Of Collective Labor Agreements, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Book Review. Frankfurter, F. And N. Greene, The Labor Injunction, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Collective Labor Agreements In German Law, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Due Process Of Law In State Labor Legislation, Fowler Vincent Harper

Michigan Law Review

State interference with conditions of employment, as determined by the strength of the contracting parties, by imposing requirements calculated to protect the safety and health of employees, has not been without interruption from the courts. In the earlier cases, when organized labor was not strong enough to enforce the most reasonable demands without assistance from the legislature, the courts were wont to look with astute eye upon the infringement of liberty of contract thus resulting. When the reasoning started with the assumption that liberty of contract was the rule and the employment of the police power of the State the …

Collective Labor Agreements In American Law, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Some Methods Of Conciliation And Arbitration Of Industrial Disputes, James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

In these times when we see combinations of employers co-operating under trade agreements with combinations of employees to conduct immense industries, we are apt to forget the remarkable development of ideas concerning industrial economy that has occurred within a life-time. It was only eighty years ago that the merchants of Boston met to discountenance and check what were then" regarded as unlawful combinations of workmen formed to protest against the long work day, low wages, and oppressive rules of their masters. The sum of $20,0oo was raised at this meeting of merchants and ship owners to fight the movement for …

A Comparison Of Some Methods Of Conciliation And Arbitration Of Industrial Disputes, James H. Brewster

Articles

In these times when we see combinations of employers co-operating under trade agreements with combinations of employees to conduct immense industries, we are apt to forget the remarkable development of ideas concerning industrial economy that has occurred within a life-time. It was only eighty years ago that the merchants of Boston met to discountenance and check what were then regarded as unlawful combinations of workmen formed to protest against the long work day, low wages, and oppressive rules of their masters. The sum of $20,000 was raised at this meeting of merchants and ship owners to fight the movement for …