Power on the Job: The Legal Rights of Working PeopleSouth End Press, 1994 - 318 pages This book effectively deals with the legacy of the Reagan-Bush era: unemployment, underemployment, and the diminishing legal rights of union organizers. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 1 |
Questions and Answers | 5 |
Enforcement and Penalties | 43 |
The States Police Power | 59 |
The Railway Labor Act | 73 |
Organizing a Union without the NLRB | 90 |
THE LAW OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING | 111 |
The Railway Labor Act | 130 |
THE CONSTITUTION | 203 |
The Constitution and the Rights of Groups of Workers | 214 |
Atwill Employment and Wrongful Discharge | 222 |
Questions and Answers | 229 |
HEALTH SAFETY WAGES AND HOURS | 235 |
The Occupational Safety and Health | 243 |
Questions and Answers | 249 |
INDEX OF CASES CITED | 271 |
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