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What is a foreman? Most employers claim he is a boss, and therefore an arm of management. The Foreman's Association of America, a labor union, claims that a foreman is an employe and thus entitled to bargain collectively. NLRB and WLB have skittishly skirted the question...
...squiggle was only one quiver on the seismograph of the labor earthquake shaking the Douglas empire last week. Other contracts were in the offing. In the huge Douglas Long Beach plant, 84% of the 23,000 employes voted in an NLRB election for representation by either the U.A.W. or the A.F. of L. Machinists. As neither received a majority, a run-off election will be held this week (U.A.W. is expected to win). Another NLRB election will be held in the Santa Monica plant, biggest in the empire, for 34,000 eligible workers. This one is not in the union...
Through his work in the American Civil Liberties Union and his contribution to The Nation and The New Republic. Dean Garrison has become a household name in liberal circles. His extensive work in labor relations, including his chairmanship of the NLRB with its job of handling the Smith boys, has made him one of the outstanding authorities in the field of labor law, and one of the best-known mediators in the nation...
...industrial front, factory foremen are the top sergeants, the voice of management in the shop. Many U.S. industrialists were concerned when a foreman's union took shape (TIME, March 29). They breathed easier when NLRB ruled last May that the Wagner Act does not apply to foremen. But last week the up-&-coming Foreman's Association of America proved that the foreman problem is far from settled...
...Since enactment of the Smith-Connally-Harness Act, NLRB has had 404 notices for strike votes. Out of 69 strike elections, 64 resulted in strike calls, almost all to put pressure on WLB for higher wages...