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York City employees. NLRB, in the first such action in its history, ordered an election to determine if the workers still want the union shop provided in the contract. A month after the contract was made a year ago, a group of employees petitioned for an election to abrogate the union shop. Both union and management, believing the contract ironclad, contended that such an election could not be legally held. But in a 3-to-2 decision, the NLRB held that the machinery of the Taft-Hartley Act makes it possible for employees to escape from compulsory union membership whenever...
...Said NLRB's majority opinion: "The issue this case is whether the bonus . . . was a gift, as the company argues, or part of 'wages' within the meaning of the [Taft-Hartley] Act ... Although we ... believe in the Christmas spirit, we agree ... that the bonus constituted an integral part of the company's wage structure." Humphed dissenting Board Member Abe Murdock, onetime 100% New Dealer from Utah: "A genuine Christmas gift has no place on the bargaining table...
After the union won an NLRB election, Milliken made good his threat. Last week, with the plant shut down for good, it was offered for sale. It looked as if Mount Hope Finishing Co., like many another New England textile manufacturer, would head South where labor is cheaper and raw material closer at hand. Though Milliken denies having relocated in the South yet, Milliken's personnel manager went to the Creedmoor Co., a small finishing plant in Butner, N.C., to supervise the installation of machinery from Mount Hope. Meanwhile, more than 20 ex-employees of Mount Hope have already...
Last week the President also: ¶ Signed a revision of the Taft-Hartley Act to permit union-shop contracts without an NLRB-supervised election. ¶Laid the cornerstone for a Red Cross building in Washington and appealed for blood donations...
...divorce them, but when anyone works for me I want him where I want him when I want him, and if he doesn't like it he can work for someone else." The union's office employees chose another course: they organized a union and appealed to NLRB...