Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan to an all but academic question, for the immediate reason which drove many liberals to support it was their wish for Labor legislation. One important aspect of the Wagner Labor Act not involved in last week's decisions was the right of the Labor Board to order plant elections and give exclusive bargaining power for all to the representatives of the majority. With the boost given them by these decisions, no man doubted that it would be long before this right too is threshed out in the courts. Meantime, however, the Supreme Court had once more demonstrated...
While Sit-Down critics throughout the land observed with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor...
...controversy. All that the union gained was that these things were put in writing. The union on its part promised not to coerce employes to join, not to permit its members to take part in "any sit-down or stayin strike or other stoppage" in any Chrysler plant for the period of the agreement (one year). Lesser matters were left to further negotiation...
Quasi-Peace. Day after this peace, Governor Murphy succeeded in settling the Reo strike, next day the Hudson Motors strike, both on the basis of the Chrysler terms. Once more quasi-peace reigned in the motor industry. But in General Motors plants, where peace was made two months ago, a sort of guerrilla labor war went on in the form of brief, "spontaneous" sit-downs. The workers' willingness to strike at the drop of a hat was best illustrated at the Oldsmobile plant. There one afternoon the day shift finished work ten minutes early. Members of the night shift...
That however is not the worst feature of the Act. Those provisions which allow a bare majority of workers in a plant to bargain collectively for the entire employed staff, are so obviously dangerous as scarcely to require comment. Any arrangement which allows the imposition of the will of 51% of workers, and constitutes that 51% as the sole bargaining representatives of the entire number of employees, is not an arrangement that safeguards the best interests of all the workers. There might better be no collective bargaining at all, rather than allowing a bare majority of workers...