Power on the Job The Legal Rights of Working People

Name: Power on the Job The Legal Rights of Working People
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ISBN: 9780896084971

ISBN-10: 0896084973

ISBN-13: 9780896084971

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Yates

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This book effectively deals with the legacy of the Reagan-Bush era: unemployment, underemployment, and the diminishing legal rights of union organizers.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: South End Press
Publication date: 7/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Discrimination


Beep, Beep, Yale is Cheap: The Yale Strike, 1985


Historical Background


The Civil Right Laws


Enforcement and Penalties



Organizing a Union: History Lessons


Eugene Debs and the Pullman Strike, 1894


Some Historical Background


The State's Police Power


Early Statute Law



Organizing a Union: The Current Law


Mike and Jane Start a Union


The Basic Labor Law Statutes


The Railway Labor Act


The National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)


Organizing a Union without the NLRB


Workers Not Covered by the National Labor Relations Act



The Law of Collective Bargaining


Bargaining in the 1980s: The Hormel Strike, 1985


The Laws of Collective Bargaining


The Railway Labor Act


Public Employees



The Weapons of War


The Pittston Strike, 1989


Strikes


Picketing


Boycotts


Injunctions



The Democratic Rights of Union Members


Teamsters Take Back Their Union


The Landrum-Griffin Act


Unions and Their Members - The Duty of Fair Representation



The Constitution


Mr. Pickering's Letter


The Constitution and the Right of Workers


The Constitution and the Rights of Groups of Workers



At-Will Employment


My Brother Gets Fired


At-will Employment and Wrongful Discharge



Health, Safety, Wages, and Hours


The Clothes that We Wear


The Fair Labor Standards Act


The Occupational Safety and Health Act


Glossary of Labor Law Terms


Index of Cases Cited


Appendix I: Researching the Labor Law


Appendix II: Useful Forms and Charts


Notes


Index