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Taking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights 3 I Ellen Dannin Litigating the NLRA Values-What) P Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR Book Samples ILR Press January 2006 Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights Ellen Dannin Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/books Thank you for downloading an article from DigitalCommons@ILR. Support this valuable resource today! This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the ILR Press at DigitalCommons@ILR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Book Samples by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ILR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. If you have a disability and are having trouble accessing information on this website or need materials in an alternate format, contact [email protected] for assistance. Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights Abstract [Excerpt] This book focuses on unions and on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) – the agency and the law created to promote unionization and collective bargaining. This is not a story of mourning. Rather, this book advocates borrowing from and building on the methods the civil rights movement, and in particular, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, used to recaptured union power. They teach us that a litigation and activist strategy can overturn unjust judicial decisions, even those by the Supreme Court. More recently, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is proving that a targeted litigation strategy can still be used to “amend” the law. Keywords United States, labor law, legislation, employee rights, industrial relations, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, NLRA, NAACP, union, worker, fight, assault Comments The abstract, table of contents, and first twenty-five pages are published with permission from the Cornell University Press. For ordering information, please visit the Cornell University Press. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/books/21 This article is available at DigitalCommons@ILR: https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/books/21 -raking Back theWorkers' Law HOW TO FIGHT THE ASSAULT ON LABOR RIGHTS ELLEN DANNIN ILR PRESS an imprint of CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON CO.,.E.,.S MARTIN. P. CA q'l;.R, .!t"}.J yrQy l'i~':i ';./11\\ I'Li [OI'1 I n nDU " .i"'" '/'\I S I !H~J. i..f\uUd rj~iJI i 11.11'1.S .C',om€N1 Universi1\' Copyright @ 2006 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Foreword by David E. Bonior Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Acknowledgments First published 2006 by Cornell University Press Introduction: Reviving the Labor Mov Printed in the United States of America 1 Why Judges Rewrite Labor Law Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pllblication Data 2 Developing a Strategy to Take Back thl Dannin, Ellen J. NLRA Values, American Values Taking back the workers' law: how to fight the assault on labor rights 3 I Ellen Dannin Litigating the NLRA Values-What) p. cm. 4 Includes bibliographical references and index. 5 Litigation Themes ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4438-8 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-lO: 0-8014-4438-1 (cloth: alk. paper) 6 NLRA Rights within Other Laws 1. Labor laws and legislation-United States. 2. Employee rights -United States. 3. United States. National Labor Relations Act. 7 Trying Cases- The Rules 4. Industrial relations-United States. 1. Title. KF3369.D36 2006 8 Using the NLRB as a Resource 34+ 7301-dc22 2005027433 9 An Invitation Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing Notes of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly General Index composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.comellpress.cornell.edu. Index of Cases Discussed Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 COII,.EII,.S ProperTy at mN P. CATHEi'woor '!fJ~R\ NEVI' YORK .. JSTRIALAND LABOR R~W\l!ONS Cornell Univers:itr tations in a review, this book, i in any form without Foreword by David E. Bonior vii ~r.For information, address 12 East State Street, Ithaca, Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Reviving the Labor Movement 1 .ity Press 1 Why Judges Rewrite Labor Law 16 2 Developing a Strategy to Take Back the NLRA 36 ion Data 3 NLRA Values, American Values 51 ) fight the assault on labor rights 4 Litigating the NLRA Values-What Are the Challenges? 79 ld index. 5 Litigation Themes 99 <.paper) 'per) 6 NLRA Rights within Other Laws 117 d States. 2. Employee rights ional Labor Relations Act. 7 Trying Cases- The Rules 128 1. Title. 8 Using the NLRB as a Resource 144 2005027433 9 An Invitation 164 .nvironmentally responsible tent possible in the publishing Notes 169 etable-based, low-VOC inks otally chlorine-free, or partly General Index 191 er information, visit our website Index of Cases Discussed 195 54321 FOREWORD David E. Bonior This book addresses two concerns that have been at the heart of my work in public service for the past thirty years: the importance of citizen- ship and the meaningfulness of work. In many ways, citizenship and work are inextricable. When I conversed with new immigrants in the congres- sional district that I represented for nearly twenty-six years, I was consis- tently reminded of how much they wanted to be valued as contributing members of American society and saw their jobs as the primary medium for adding value to their new communities and homeland. But when workers are prevented from exercising their democratic rights, it becomes nearly impossible to establish dignity in other critical spheres of their lives. As Ellen Dannin states, "The National Labor Relations Act says that the private workplace is not truly private because what happens at work does not remain there. It spills out into society, and society as a whole pays the price for inequality." Verna Bader, for example, a 72-year-old grandmother and machinist from Taylor, Michigan, tried to form a union to address $5-per-hour pay and unsafe working conditions that included maneuvering around ex- posed live wires. In 1992, she and five other machinists in her department ,were fired after they stood up for themselves and voted to form a union at Taylor Machine Products. When she fought the company for illegally firing her, the National La- bor Relations Board ordered the company to pay her lost earnings. Adding viii FOREWORD insult to injury, however, the Board allowed this issue to drag out for over home the reason why protecting wo a decade. The Agency failed to fully implement the values that underlie the portant. In it, he makes the link bet", law and to recognize the importance of a timely payment, ensuring that the tics, the near decline of liberal legis spirit of the Act and its underlying values were upheld. This book demon- organized labor." He goes on to say strates that this is a common occurrence. More than twelve years after the on Capitol Hill, it did not confine it~ order was issued, Verna Bader finally received the restitution she deserved. own members. It was at the forefron Her victory was bittersweet. In the end, she "won," but the wait almost de- rights, housing programs, and a hm stroyed her faith in American justice, and understandably so. As Dannin the whole community. And becaus( argues, "Our work lives become incorporated into our intimate physical heeded. " and mental selves. Over time, the undemocratic workplace grinds away at This is a critical time for Americ the belief that we have a right to participate in the decisions that affect our unions. Tremendous resistance by en lives and societies." ing anti-union consultant industry, 1 Today's labor law, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt seventy unions without fear of reprisal. A Nt years ago, embodied the profound aspiration of providing "industrial union campaign at a single factory iI democracy" to American workers such as Bader. The centerpiece of work- allegedly paid $2.3 million to the laV' place democracy was and remains the ability of workers to form unions of illegal campaign tactics is now so and collectively bargain with their employers. minutes, a worker is fired or discrim The Wagner Act, known more prevalently today as the National Labor cise his or her freedom of associatior Relations Act, created the National Labor Relations Board to administer As if this were not enough of a chs and enforce the law. The NLRB is charged with upholding the law's un- omy have shifted employment away derlying values of democracy, fairness, and justice. These underlying val- ing sector to the large! y nonunion se ues have the power to transform our workplaces, empowering workers union representation. As of 20°4, on] with the necessary skills to be active citizens in democracy. By shining light force belonged to a union. And in the on these tenets of the Act, Ellen Dannin's book examines how the potential only 8 percent of employees were ur ( value of the NLRA transcends the workplace by serving, more broadly, as Given the challenges to workers' a barometer of the health of our democracy. would expect that the National Labo Until we recognize the interplay between citizenship and work, we will the freedom of association now mor, compromise American democracy and undermine its advancement. It is of George W. Bush, the Board has iss well documented that union membership enhances people's ability to be tions of the law and fail to make thE better citizens of a democracy.
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