Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Faculty Scholarship 2010 Gathering Moss: The NRLA's Resistance to Legislative Change James J. Brudney Fordham University School of Law,
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[email protected]. 161 Gathering Moss: The NLRA's Resistance to Legislative Change James J. Brudney* Introduction It has become commonplace to refer to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)1 as ossified.2 To be sure, Congress does not typically revisit on a frequent basis statutes that are transformative of the surrounding legal landscape. Still, compare the national law of labor-management relations to major statutes governing telecommunications, securities, banking, civil rights, education, health care, or the environment. In stark contrast to these other regulatory schemes, Congress has made virtually no changes in the NLRA since Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, since television arrived in American homes, or since well before the creation of the interstate highway system.