Labor-management Relations, Part 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 4175 pages |
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action affidavit agreement amendment American arbitration association BARDEN bargaining units believe bill BUGAS CAREY Chairman McCONNELL charge closed shop collective bargaining collective-bargaining committee Communist compulsory CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman contract court dispute economic effect election employer enactment fact Federal filed FITZGERALD foremen going Government GWINN hearing industrywide bargaining injunction interest issue jurisdiction jurisdictional strikes KEARNS labor organization Labor Relations Act Labor Relations Board labor unions Labor-Management LANDRUM legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LUCAS manufacturing membership ment National Labor Relations NIXON NLRB Norris-LaGuardia Act officers operation parties percent picket plant ployer position present president problem production proposals protection provisions question representatives right to strike ROBINSON secondary boycott Senator statement strikers supervisors Taft-Hartley Act Taft-Hartley law thing tion trade unions unfair labor practice union security vote wage Wagner Act WATTS Westinghouse workers
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Page 2496 - supervisor" means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibility to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.
Page 2440 - The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract, and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners in industry and by preventing the stabilization of competitive wage rates and working conditions within...
Page 2450 - No great stretch of the imagination is required to foresee that if nothing is done to check the growth in concentration, either the giant corporations will ultimately take over the country or the Government will be impelled to step in and impose some form of direct regulation in the public interest.
Page 2371 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 2377 - When such motion is granted, the President shall submit to the Congress a full and comprehensive report of the proceedings, including the findings of the board of inquiry and the ballot taken by the National Labor Relations Board together with such recommendations as he may see fit to make for consideration and appropriate action.
Page 2339 - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.
Page 2349 - Undoubtedly the scope of this power must be considered in the light of our dual system of government and may not be extended so as to embrace effects upon interstate commerce so indirect and remote that to embrace them, in view of our complex society, would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local and create a completely centralized government.
Page 2443 - A combination of workmen to raise their wages may be considered in a twofold point of view: one is to benefit themselves; the other is to injure those who do not join their society. The rule of law condemns both.
Page 2353 - The principle is thoroughly established that the exercise by the State of its police power, which would be valid if not superseded by federal action, is superseded only where the repugnance or conflict is so "direct and positive" that the two acts cannot "be reconciled or consistently stand together.
Page 2336 - Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law.