Year: 1948
Type: article
Abstract: T HIS paper is an interim report on the application of the Na- tional Labor Relations Act as amended by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947,' during its first eight months of operation.'It does not purport to be a critical analysis of the Act, nor to consider and resolve all problems which may arise in its application in the future.Excellent critical analyses of the Act are already available.Rather, this study is primarily informative in character, designed to direct attention to significant National Labor Relations Board and court decisions.Necessarily, such a report is interim in nature, since the last word has not been said on many of the issues decided by the Board and the lower federal courts.Still, the current decisions applying the Act are significant, not only because labor and management must take account of Board and lower court determinations until reversed, but because the ;Professor of Law, University of Minnesota.1. 61 Stat.136 (1947), 29 U. S. C. A. § 141 et.seq.(Supp.1947), hereinafter referred to as LMRA.Title I, § 101, of LRMA is the National Labor Relations Act as amended, consisting of 17 sections.In this study references to Sections 1 through 17 will be to the National Labor Relations Act [NLRA] as amended by LMRA, unless otherwise indicated.References to Sections 102 through 503 will be to the balance of LMRA.The Act became effective on August 22, 1947.2. Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and the courts netween August 22, 1947 and April 22, 1948, are considered, except for the addition of brief references to a few important decisions handed down in May after this paper was in the printer's hands.3. Cox, Some Aspects of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, (1947) 61 Harv.L. Rev. 1, (1948) 61 Harv.L. Rev. 274; Foley, Union Unfair Labor Practices under the Taft-Hartley Act, (1947) 33 Va.L. Rev. 697; Sutherland, Reasons in Retrospect, (1947) 33 Corn.L. Q. 1; Van Arkle, An Analysis of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (Practicing Law Institute, 1947) ; Notes (1947) 96 U. Pa.L. Rev. 67; (1947) 42 Ill.L. Rev. 444.Other more specialized critical studies are cited infra in connection with the particular subject considered.
Source: Minnesota law review
DOI: 10.24926/265535.3442
Author: William B. Lockhart
Language: English
Topic: Legal and Labor Studies
Subfield: Industrial relations
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2931932431