...Rather, both statutes were enacted to advance broad public interests. Thus, the purpose of the NLRA was "to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce" and the primary purpose of the RLA was "to avoid any interruptions to commerce or the operation of any...

...restoring equality of bargaining power between employers and employees. . . . It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of...

...Relations Act.) Section 1 of the National Labor Relations Act goes on to state: It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of...

...conflict in the Board's favor. II The National Labor Relations Act seeks to improve labor relations ("eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce," . . .) in large part by granting specific sets of rights to employers and to employees. This case grows...

...restoring equality of bargaining power between employers and employees. . . . It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of...

...by restoring equality of bargaining power between employen and employees. . . . It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by worken of full freedom of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their...

...association substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce. ... It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate those obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective...

...to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce," and "the policy of the United States [is] to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce ... by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise...

...employeeemployer problems—and this policy is contained in the preamble which states: It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of...

...Act set forth the central precepts of US labor law. Section 1 states: "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they occur by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise...