...institutionalized and protected rights to organize and strike, was intended to redress power disparities by “encouraging the practice and procedure of collective...of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment.”...

...the market for goods flowing from or into the channels of commerce. . . . It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes...substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce ... by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining.86 Obviously, the drafters made...

...consistently affirmed the Act's basic policy, as expressed in Section i, of encouraging collective bargaining by "protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom...of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing." Nowhere in Congress' deliberations is there any indication...

...a necessary condition to the assurance of the rights herein guaranteed. . . . It is 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...

...of the United States to encourage the practice of collective bargaining: 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...

...restoring equality of bargaining power between employers and employees. 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...

...Findings and Policies contained in the introductory section of the Act: 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 of their employment...

...who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership." The act responded to this situation by "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective...of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment."...

...substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce.' This vital national purpose was to be accomplished 'by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective...exercise by workers of full freedom of association.' Only thus could workers ensure themselves economic standards consonant with national wellbeing. Discrimination...

...declaring the policy which underlies the Act. lts ultimate concern, as well as the source of its power, was 'to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce.' This vital national purpose was to be accomplished 'by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective...