Word: nlrb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus strengthening the Senate's halfway attempt to solve the "no man's land" problem. ¶ Accepted the House's stronger ban on blackmail picketing, but beat down a severe House section that would effectively prevent almost all picketing in advance of a plant's NLRB election...
...Specifically, the Landrum-Griffin bill 1) bans picketing by one union where another union is recognized, also where the picketing union has not applied for a NLRB recognition election within the preceding 30 days; 2) extends Taft-Hartley's partial ban on secondary boycotts to railroad, airline, farm and domestic workers, outlaws threats of boycott; 3) authorizes states to handle no-man's-land disputes...
...NLRB Examiner John F. Funke decided that the pattings and improprieties had come a month before the men were fired and had been regarded as "trivial" by management at the time, thus could not be the reason for the firings. "Credulity," said Funke, "is a girdle that can be stretched only so far." Funke agreed that some employers would "sacrifice the immediate interest of their business to maintain a standard of propriety and decorum at which Victoria herself would not cavil," but, he said, Santangelo "could not be described as Victorian." Added Examiner Funke: "The contiguous employment of male...
ORGANIZATIONAL PICKETING: The committee bill prohibits picketing of a company already organized by a bona fide union, or within nine months after an NLRB election, but does nothing about other forms of "blackmail picketings." The Administration wants to prohibit all picketing designed to blackmail an employer into bargaining with a union when his employees do not request an election...
...firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...