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...NLRB SERVICES can no longer be called on by small radio and TV stations, telephone and telegraph companies (less than $200,000 in annual business). By a 3-2 vote, the Republican majority has clipped the board's authority in line with its policy of limiting jurisdiction to cases with a "pronounced effect" on interstate commerce...
CORPORATE BOOKS must now be opened to unions when employers claim inability to pay as the basis for refusing wage increases. The NLRB, in a test case brought by the A.F.L. Iron Workers against North Carolina's Truitt Manufacturing Co., ruled that an employer must open the books even though the profit disclosure hurts his competitive position...
...first decisions under its new policy to exempt small firms from the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, July 26), the National Labor Relations Board last week split on where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party...
...collective bargaining, if the company itself contributes toward the purchase. In so ruling in a case involving Richfield Oil, the National Labor Relations Board significantly broadened the meaning of "wages [and] other conditions" in the Taft-Hartley Act. Richfield is appealing the ruling to the federal courts. But NLRB did not open the door to union demands for companies to set up stock purchase plans; that question was not an issue...
...Passed a bill to deny Red-led labor unions the NLRB's protection of their collective-bargaining rights. ¶Voted 85-0 to tack onto the Red-led union bill a rider designed to "outlaw" the Communist Party, a proposition opposed by Attorney General Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that...