mark
Michael Hoover wrote:
>to what extent is there a right to strike in US?...aren't most
>public employees prohibited from doing so?...did Section 7(a) of
>the National Industrial Recovery Act, which guaranteed the right
>employees to organize and to bargain collectively also establish
>a right to strike?...after all, 7(a) was not result of labor union
>agitation or union leadership advocacy, but culmination of efforts
>by corporate leaders who favored economic regulation and stability
>(their model was WW1 War Industries Board)...NIRA, in effect, also
>legalized cartels in US industry...
>
>did Wagner Act (a boon, no doubt, to US labor movement), which
>made 7(a) permanent when Recovery Act expired, guarantee a
>right to strike?...National Labor Relations Board may have been
>authorized to issue cease and desist orders to employers committing
>unfair labor practices as defined by law and to certify bargaining
>reps for unions, but wasn't principal purpose of legislation to
>safeguard interstate commerce from interruption by kind of strike
>wave that erupted (unexpectedly) following passage of 7(a)?...in
>other words, institutionalize and regulate capital-labor relations...
>
>isn't Wagner is the 'liberal' side of labor-management relations to
>Taft-Hartley's 'conservative' side outlawing jurisdictional strikes
>& secondary strikes, and providing for use of injunction and other
>'cooling-off' procedures where strike or threat thereof threatens
>the 'national welfare'... Michael Hoover
>
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