All Posts Tagged With: "NLRB"
Employer Speech and Freedom of Association
I have argued that forcing a worker to submit to the will of a majority of his colleagues on the question of whether a union will represent him is a violation of that worker’s freedom of association. Association with a union is rightly a matter of individual not collective choice. Here I want to consider [...]
4Jan2012 | Charles W. Baird | 1 comment | ContinuedCrony Unionism: Private Sector
In America competition from union-free enterprises is making private-sector unionism increasingly irrelevant. Only 9 percent of union-free workers desire to become union members. The last redoubt for unions is government employment, and they are increasingly in peril even there. However, the unions are fighting back by running to politicians and bureaucrats for help. Unions needed [...]
25May2011 | Charles W. Baird | 2 comments | ContinuedEFCA and Compromise
As proposed, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would 1) replace secret-ballot union representation elections with card-check certification of unions as exclusive (monopoly) bargaining agents for workers in their workplaces; 2) impose compulsory-interest arbitration on employers who do not agree to a first union contract within 130 days; and 3) increase penalties on alleged unfair [...]
19Aug2009 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedEmployee Free Choice and Top-Down Organizing
The good news is that American union membership in the private sector fell from 8.2 percent in 2003 to 7.9 percent of the labor force in 2004. (In 1900 the figure was 7 percent without any union-friendly legislation on the books.) Over the same time the market share of government-employee unions fell from 37.2 to [...]
1Jun2005 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedUnions Draft Temporary Workers
Under the doctrine that the Constitution is a “living document” that must constantly be reinterpreted to keep up with the times, the Supreme Court often ignores its plain text and imposes what it considers to be good results. Last August, in a consolidated decision involving two cases—M.B. Sturgis, Inc., and Jeffboat Division—the National Labor Relations [...]
1Aug2001 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedSalt Without Savor
Suppose that Microsoft hired people to pose as ordinary job applicants at Netscape. When hired by Netscape, their mission would be to disrupt and sabotage production, file as many complaints as possible against Netscape alleging noncompliance with workplace regulations imposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the [...]
1May1998 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued-
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