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Labor Law--Nonemployee Union Organizers Granted Access To Company Property For Solicitation Purposes--Solo Cup Company And United Papermakers And Paperworkers, Afl-Cio, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The principal case emphasizes the general conflict between an employee's right of self-organization under section 7 of the NLRA and the employer's right, as a property owner, to control access to his plant premises. Face-to-face contact between employees and trained union organizers at the workplace would undoubtedly be the most effective way for the union to impart organizational information to the employees. But this assumption overlooks the legitimate interests of the employer; to permit organizational activities in all parts of the plant at any time would be unduly destructive of both plant production and discipline and could result in the …

Labor Law--Remedies--An Assessment Of The Proposed "Make-Whole" Remedy In Refusal-To-Bargain Cases, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The conventional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) remedy against an employer who has violated section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by refusing to bargain with a properly certified union is a cease-and-desist order coupled with a directive ordering the employer to bargain with the union at the union's request. However, the interval between an employer's initial refusal to bargain and the final entry of a court of appeals' decree enforcing the NLRB's order to bargain has often been of such long duration that unions have complained that the conventional remedy is relatively meaningless and ineffective. The unions' …

Labor Law--Unions--The National Labor Relations Board's Role In Examining The Use Of Union Dues Collected Pursuant To A Union Security Agreement, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Under section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a majority union and an employer are permitted to enter into a so-called "union security agreement," which requires all employees in the bargaining unit to tender to the union as a condition of continued employment "the periodic dues and the initiation fees uniformly required" by the union of its members. As long as an employee-whether or not he is a member of the union-is willing to pay the proper initiation fees and the "periodic dues.., uniformly required," the union commits an unfair labor practice if it threatens to request or …

The Nlrb And Arbitration: Is The Board's Expanding Jurisdiction Justified?, Richard I. Bloch

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article will view the functions of the arbitrator and the Labor Board, as well as the arguments for their respective jurisdictions. It will examine the history of the subject from Lincoln Mills through the most recent words on the subject. With a view of the history of the problem and an attempt to examine realistic solutions as well as pure legal logic, the attempt will be to demonstrate the glaring need today for more specifically enunciated standards on the part of the Board. The author shall propose certain aspects of the collective bargaining situation to which the Board must …

Labor Law--The Judicial Role In The Enforcement Of The "Excelsior Rule", Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The NLRB has sought such judicial assistance in almost a dozen cases, and in most of these the courts have assumed an active role in the enforcement of the Excelsior rule. However, a few courts have not been receptive to such enforcement, and the NLRB itself has experienced some difficulty in settling upon the proper grounds for requesting judicial aid. To date, the NLRB has advanced two theories as bases for court enforcement of the requirement that employers produce Excelsior lists: (I) it has sought-under section 1337 of the Judicial Code-to invoke the general jurisdiction of federal district courts to …

A Touchstone For Labor Board Remedies, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

Fashion dictates what lawyers argue about, and law professors write about, more than we may care to admit. In labor law, especially, the styles change with a rapidity that would impress a Paris couturier. During the past decade the spotlight has moved from union democracy to labor contract enforcement to the union organizing campaign. Today the "in" topic is National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) remedies. Yet if any subject deserves immunity from the vagaries of fashion, this is the one; for all rights acquire substance only insofar as they are backed by effective remedies. Coke said it long ago: "[W]ant …

Labor Law--Choice Of An Appropriate Bargaining Unit--Craft Severance, Jerry David Hogg

West Virginia Law Review

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Landrum-Griffin 1965-1966: A Calculus Of Democratic Values, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Book Chapters

One of the happier ironies of recent labor history can be found in the impetus given union democracy by the Landrum- Griffin Act. At the time the Act was passed, the thinking of disinterested observers had not yet crystallized on the merits of running a union's affairs democratically. It is probably fair to say that the main push in Congress for Landrum-Griffin and, particularly, its Title, "Bill of Rights" came from a conservative coalition which was less concerned with promoting the individual rights of working people than with blunting the effectiveness of labor organizations. There is hardly anything unique in …

Employer's Liability For Employee He Was Compelled To Hire, James Balph

Cleveland State Law Review

Should an employer be liable for the torts of his employee if he was compelled to employ him?The master is charged with the obligation of selecting competent workmen. Therefore, if the element of employee selection is removed as a prerogative of the employer, does not this remove the master-servant relationship? If the employer through no fault of his own cannot completely direct and control the employee, is not the necessary privity between master and servant absent? Is it reasonable that the employer be liable for the misconduct of a person whose selection and/or control has been taken out of his …

The Labor Board And The Arbitrators, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Other Publications

The Labor Relations Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan held its second program of the current year, from May 27 through May 30, 1967 on Mackinaw Island, on a variety of subject matters with excellent presentations by the resource people conducting each of the various symposiums. Those who were unable to be present in this joint venture of pleasure and legal presentations will be able to at least vicariously "gather in the sheaves" of the legal wisdom disseminated during the program by the report contained herein. For those who were fortunate enough to attend plus those who didn't, …

Section 8 (A) (3) Of The Nlra And The Effort To Insulate Free Employee Choice, Julius G. Getman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Procedural Arbitrability Under Section 301 Of The Lmra, Alan Schwartz

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Midwest Piping Doctrine: An Example Of The Need For Reappraisal Of Labor Board Dogma, Julius G. Getman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Economic Aspiration And Method, Jesse W. Markham

Vanderbilt Law Review

The topic I have chosen concerns the changing nature of organized economic enterprise, especially its social and legal environment. By organized economic enterprise I shall mean any economic entity in which decision-making is essentially composite rather than individual, of which business corporations and labor unions are the most obvious and, in terms of impact on the total economy, the most important. But by the criterion employed--decisions are essentially composite rather than individual--the average household consisting of at least one wife and husband surely falls within its ambit. Nor do I mean to imply that organized economic enterprise can be assessed …

Disposition Of Local's Funds Upon Disaffiliation, Joseph T. Svete

Cleveland State Law Review

Disposition of funds upon a local's disaffiliation from the international union has been one of the most difficult problems for the courts to overcome in the field of Labor Law. The application of common law doctrines to a mobile field requiring flexible approaches posed many problems. Seemingly, a new theory had to be developed every time'a new situation arose since the courts were reluctant to consistently apply any one theory because of its undesirable results. This resulted in the development of six distinct doctrines: "implied condition" or "frustration of purpose," "local autonomy," "trust fund," "unclean hands," "certification" and "breach of …

Constitutional Law--Protected Freedoms And Rights--Enforced Organizational Dues, William Erwin Barr

West Virginia Law Review

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The Ethical Problem In The Representation Of Union Members By Union Attorneys, Herbert Shelton Sanger Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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Labor Law--Unprotected Activities As Affecting Requirements Of Union's Duty To Bargain, C. H. H. Ii

West Virginia Law Review

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Rights And Remedies Of Members In Internal Union Controversies In The Southern Jurisdictions, Fred Graham

Vanderbilt Law Review

There is a traditional reluctance on the part of judges to involve the courts in the internal affairs of labor unions. Consequently, a judge will often pause in the course of an opinion adjudicating a union controversy with an aside to the effect that:

"Of course, it is well understood that courts are indisposed to interfere with the internal management of an unincorporated, voluntary association as is here involved. We have held that the right of a voluntary association to interpret and administer its own rules and regulations is as sacred as the right to make them, and there is …

Book Notes, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Labor Unions and Public Policy By Edward H. Chamberlin, Philip D. Bradley, Gerald D. Reilly and Roscoe Pound Washington, D.C.:American Enterprise Association, 1958. Pp. 177. $4.50.

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The Worker Views His Union By Joel Seidman, Jack London, Bernard Karsh and Daisy L. Tagliacozzo Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 300. $5.75.

Hot Cargo Clauses As A Defense To Union-Induced Secondary Boycotts, D. L. Mcc.

West Virginia Law Review

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Whither Hurried Hence -- The New Right To Work Amendment, Dan Hopson Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Constitutional Law--Freedom Of Speech--Ordinance Requiring Registration Of Union Organizers Held Violative, J. L. R.

West Virginia Law Review

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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 …

Ginzberg: The Labor Leader, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE LABOR LEADER, By Eli Ginzberg.

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.

Kickback Act Held Not To Apply To Labor Union Officials, Thomas F. Broden

Journal Articles

United States v. Carbone et al. raises an important question as to the meaning and scope of Sec. 1 of the Act of June 13, 1934, commonly known as the Kickback Act, making it unlawful to prevent any person employed in government construction and repair from receiving the full compensation to which he is entitled.

Unions Of Their Own Choosing, Stephen Ailes

West Virginia Law Review

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Constitutional Law -- Validity Of Statutes Restricting Picketing And Related Activities, John P. Frank

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Is The Anti-Trust Law Anti-Labor?, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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