Class 6 outlines

Unfair labor practices by employers

• Interference with employee rights: 29 USC § 158(a)(1)
  • Employer responsibility
  • Free speech v. interference
    • NLRB v. VEPCO, 314 U.S. 469 (1941)
  • Threat v. prophecy: § 158(c)
    • NLRB v. Gissel Packing, 395 U.S. 575 (1969)
    • Right to Organize Act: S 654 (1999), S 1102 (2001)
  • Employee rights v. property rights
    • NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox, 351 U.S. 105 (1956)
• Domination or interference with labor unions: § 158(a)(2)
  • Employee participation programs
    • NLRB v. Cabot Carbon, 360 U.S. 203 (1959)
    • Electromation, 309 NLRB 163 (1992)
    • “Safe havens”: du Pont, 311 NLRB 88 (1993)
    • “Brainstorming”? Polaroid, 329 NLRB 47 (1999)
    • Teamwork for Employees and Managers Act (TEAM)
      • HR 743 (1995), Clinton veto (1996); HR 634/S 295 (1997)
  • Employee Free Choice Act
    • HR 3619/S 1925 (2003), HR 1696/S 842 (2005), HR 800/S 1041 (2007)
      • AFL-CIO support
  • Secret Ballot Protection Act
    • HR 4343/S 2637 (2004), HR 874/S 1173 (2005), HR 866/S 1312 (2007)
      • US Chamber of Commerce support
• Discrimination against employees
  • Encourage or discourage union membership: § 158(a)(3)
    • Phelps Dodge v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177 (1941)
    • Teamsters v. NLRB, 365 U.S. 667 (1961)
    • NLRB v. TMC, 462 U.S. 393 (1983)
  • Who filed charges with NLRB: § 158(a)(4)
    • Johnson’s v. NLRB, 461 U.S. 731 (1983)
• Refusal to bargain: § 158(a)(5)
  • Good-faith obligation: § 158(d)
    • NLRB v. American, 343 U.S. 395 (1952)
    • NLRB v. Katz, 369 U.S. 736 (1962)
  • Subjects: NLRB v. Borg-Warner, 356 U.S. 342 (1958)
  • Extent of duty: Heinz v. NLRB, 311 U.S. 514 (1941)
    • Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act
      • HR 1412 (1999), HR 652 (2001), HR 93 (2003), HR 101 (2005), HR 142 (2007), HR 243 (2009)
• Certain “hot cargo” agreements: § 158(e) [see below and last week]

Unfair labor practices by unions

• Introduction
  • Background/history
  • Union responsibility and free speech
• Restraint or coercion of employees or employers: 29 USC § 158(b)(1)
  • Duty of fair representation
    • Ford v. Huffman, 345 U.S. 330 (1953)
    • Steelworkers v. Rawson, 495 U.S. 362 (1990)
  • Fines: NLRB v. Allis-Chalmers, 388 U.S. 175 (1967)
    • NLRB v. Boeing, 412 U.S. 67 (1973)
    • Pattern Makers v. NLRB, 473 U.S. 95 (1985)
• Causing employers to discriminate: § 158(b)(2) [see above]
  • Radio Officers v. NLRB, 347 U.S. 17 (1954)
• Refusal to bargain: § 158(b)(3) [see above]
  • Good-faith obligation: § 158(d) [see above]
• Prohibited strikes and picketing: § 158(b)(4)
  • sub¶ (B) common-situs picketing
    • NLRB v. Denver Bldg. Council, 341 U.S. 675 (1951)
  • sub¶ (D) jurisdictional disputes
    • NLRB v. Plasterers, 404 U.S. 116 (1971)
• Excessive initiation fees: § 158(b)(5)
• “Featherbedding”: § 158(b)(6)
  • ANPA v. NLRB, 345 U.S. 100 (1953)
• Prohibited organizational/recognitional picketing: § 158(b)(7)
  • sub¶ (C) informational picketing permitted
• Certain “hot cargo” agreements: § 158(e)
  • Carpenters v. NLRB, 357 U.S. 93 (1958)