Labor Law. National Labor Relations Board. Employer's Statement of Open Shop Policy Inclosed with Pay Checks an Unfair Labor Practice

1941 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 400
Keyword(s):  
Labor Relations ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Open Shop ◽  
Unfair Labor Practice ◽  
National Labor Relations Board

Do Graduate Students Work?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
National Labor Relations Board

This chapter considers the question of whether graduate students should be categorized as workers or students. The question has been up for grabs for several years in Congress, at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and in the courts. The issue is important not just because such a decision will help advance or retard the enrollment of thousands of graduate students into trade unions. Rather, this is the kind of question that bedevils and confuses our understanding of the nature of work, of the purposes of the labor law, and of how we think about class in a society when the vast majority of people wear collars that are neither blue nor white.

Political Bias in NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Decisions

ILR Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. Cooke ◽  
Frederick H. Gautschi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Board Member ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Unfair Labor Practice ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
National Labor Relations Board ◽  
Political Bias

Previous research has suggested that U.S. presidents appoint members to the National Labor Relations Board who reflect the administration's own union-management predilections. No adequate empirical evidence has yet been reported, however, to show that, once appointed, Board members act in a biased manner. The present study develops and tests a choice model of Board member decisions in selected unfair labor practice cases over the 1954–77 period. The evidence strongly supports the popular belief that Board decisions are heavily dependent upon shifting political winds.

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