Year: 1962
Type: article
Abstract: The sponsors 1 of the Wisconsin Employment Peace ActV viewed their efforts as "something more than the establishment of a penal code," that is, a mere deterrent 3 to industrial strife.This article will treat those provisions of the act which do not speak to recognition of bargaining agent, 4 the "all union shop," 5 or unfair labor practices, 6 per se.Examination will be made of three more or less unrelated sections of Chapter 111 of the Wisconsin Statutes in an effort to contrast the stated purpose of the act with what it has accomplished in practice.Unlike the previous article, 7 documentation for the author's conclusions must rest heavily on the results of his two-year field study of the act 8 and less upon administrative decisions.In their order of consideration, the sections are: (I) Declaration of Policy; (II) Mediation; (III) Arbitration; (IV) Prevention of Unfair Labor Practices; (V) Enforcement under the Act; (VI) Conclusions.I. POLICYThe wording of the Peace Act is such that little latitude is left to the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board to determine policy.An appraisal of the act would seem to indicate that the legislature reserved to itself the making of policy by precise definitions and by detailed spelling out of the procedure to be followed under the act.Subsequent legis-*This article is Part II of a two-part series.Part I appeared in Volume 45-2 of the Marquette Law Review.
Source: Marquette law review
Author: Justin C. Smith
Institution: Marquette University
Language: English
Topic: Legal and Labor Studies
Subfield: Industrial relations
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W71001140