Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870785230 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Encouraging and hopeful read william j. stone Authors present an alternative approach to protecting the right of collective action. After failed efforts to reform the NLRA and related legislation, the civil rights approach may work. Unfortunately, years of strife between workers and management may be a necessary predicate to actualizing the theory. Book's only weakness is the authors' simplistic approach to drafting protective legislation.. seemlessweb said Two basic problems. First, the labor laws have been essentially unchanged since 19Two basic problems seemlessweb First, the labor laws have been essentially unchanged since 1947. Yet union membership reached its peak density in the early 1950s when the same weak labor laws applied. More analysis is required to explain this fact. The relationship between weak labor law and decreasing union density is problematic. Second, the assumption that organizing would have more success under a different federal statutory regime is hard to accept. The new federal statute would be policed by the same conservative judges who refuse to apply existing labor law (as weak as it is) in an honest way. Further, the win rates o. 7. Yet union membership reached its peak density in the early 1950s when the same weak labor laws applied. More analysis is required to explain this fact. The relationship between weak labor law and decreasing union density is problematic. Second, the assumption that organizing would have more success under a different federal statutory regime is hard to accept. The new federal statute would be policed by the same conservative judges who refuse to apply existing labor law (as weak as it is) in an honest way. Further, the win rates o
It also contains a detailed discussion of what amending the Civil Rights Act to protect labor organizing would mean as well as an outline of the connection between civil rights and labor movements and analysis of the politics of civil rights and labor law reform.. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded—in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth. One reason for the labor movement's collapse is the existence of weak labor laws that, for example, impose only minimal penalties on empl
"A significant conceptual and practical framework for protecting the rights of workers to organize and for advancing equal opportunity, economic fairness, and social justice."