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...A.F.L. and C.I.O., campaigning for members in the South, were so busy belaboring each other that they failed to notice one important fact: the South's workers did not seem greatly interested in either of them. In three NLRB elections last week at the Army-controlled, civilian-operated Oak Ridge atomic-bomb plants, nearly 40% of the 12,000 eligible workers voted to join no union at all. This was enough to force run-off elections all around...
...that the bill would make unions legally responsible for violation of contract, like management. For years I have heard . . . that unions should be forced to keep contractual agreements the same as managements have to do. ... There never has been anything to force any company to keep an agreement. . . . NLRB states definitely that it is not their function to police contracts. They won't even take cases of contract violations...
...Reader Gray is technically right, actually wrong. NLRB does not police contracts as such, but does take cases of violation (under the Wagner Act) if the company's breaking of a contract leads to changes in hours, wages or working conditions not cleared with the union...
...plan would 1) elevate the Federal Security Agency to Cabinet status; 2) lump all Government housing under one agency; 3) abolish the office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines (July 4 is Philippine independence day); 4) scrap the NLRB function of conducting strike ballots; 5) transfer the jobs-for-vetefans function from Selective Service to the U.S. Employment Service; 6) transfer the Office of Contract Settlement to OWMR...
...C.I.O and A.F. of L. workers, A.C. & F. was accused of pro-union activity. The National Labor Relations Board decided that A. C. & F. had fired a Negro chainman to satisfy employes who refused to work with him because he would not join the A. F. of L. NLRB's ukase to the company: reinstate the man, "cease and desist from encouraging membership" in any union...