Author: Leonard J. Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-05-19

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9780366892112

Excerpt from Collective Bargaining Merican business and its employees have been, and will continue to be, vitally interested in the subject of collective bargaining. This interest was engendered by the increasing union ization of business and the passage of various government laws encouraging collective bargaining. With the passage of the Na tional Labor Relations Act in 1935, the practice Of collective bar gaining became the law of this land. Since that time, the courts have upheld, as a guarantee to employees, the right to organize for the purpose of bargaining collectively with their employers. Business, with few exceptions, has come to recognize that this prac tice is here to stay and has been adjusting its organizational and operational structure to allow for it. There are two particularly important sections of the National Labor Relations Act which affect collective bargaining. The first is Section 7, which gives employees the right to organize and to se lect representatives for the purpose Of collective bargaining. The other is Section 8, which establishes as an unfair labor practice company interference with this right. As one of the five unfair labor practices included, Section 8 specifically states that it is an unfair labor practice for an employer to refuse to bargain with the representatives of his'employees. According to various decisions of the Board, which have been upheld in the circuit courts, this also requires that the employer show good faith by serious intent to ad just differences and to reach an agreement. TO do this, it has been deemed necessary for him to have an Open mind and be willing to examine employee demands and to make counter proposals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.