Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, business must arouse anti-union feeling among the public. "Before we can take action to introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...
PUTTING CHAMBER of Commerce "labor reforms" into law would be similar to putting George Wallace in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The Labor Board is essential to union growth and to labor's power to bargain. It provides the only impartial supervision for the organizing elections that decide if a plant is to become union. Without a watchdog, unions could hardly win an election, for an employer's mere suggestion that if the union came in he might close down business is often enough to keep workers from voting for the union...
Other seemingly trivial practices such as forbidding workers to pass out union publicity on company premises can cripple an organizing drive. Yet Federal legislation has never specifically defined an "unfair labor practice." Without a policy-making organ like the NLRB to decide what is specifically prohibited, injustices will flourish without remedy...
...abolition of the Labor Board will also restore turn-of-the-century government by injunction. At present, most complaints of unfair labor practices are settled by an NLRB field office informally, without adversary proceedings. Complaints that do require decision are represented without cost by the Board's legal staff...
...assault succeeds, labor's prospects are grim; pro-business legislation is notably hard to repeal. Without the NLRB, unions will be hard-pressed to maintain current wage levels and to keep shops from "running away" to the non-union South. The drive to organize badly paid agricultural, hospital, and Southern workers will be smothered, for unskilled replaceable workers are easily intimidated by the mildest "unfair practice...