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the role of public policy in collective bargaining
1. Introduction. The meaning of the duty to bargain ; Hostility to the duty to bargain -- 2. The origin of the duty to bargain. The role of the duty to bargain during World War I ; The railroad industry experience ; The Newlands Act ; The Adamson Act ; Wartime administration of the railroads ; The Transportation Act of 1920 ; The Railway Labor Act of 1926 ; The 1934 amendments to the Railway Labor Act -- 3. The legislative history of the Wagner Act : the development of the New Deal collective bargaining policy. The first Wagner Bill, 1934 ; Public Resolution No. 44 ; The first National Labor Relations Board ; The effectiveness of the National Labor Relations Board ; The Wagner Bill, S. 1958 -- 4. The legislative intent and the duty to bargain. Scholars' attacks on the duty to bargain ; Other attacks on the duty to bargain ; Congressional intent in the Wagner Act -- 5. The Wagner Act experience, 1935-1947. The statutory basis for collective bargaining ; The employer's duty to meet with the union ; The duty of the employer to negotiate ; The subject matter of collective bargaining ; The duty to bargain in good faith ; Positive action required of employers ; Refusal to supply relevant information upon request ; Positive acts in derogation of an employer's duty to bargain ; Bypassing of the union ; Bypassing of the union : individual bargaining ; Acts designed to dissipate a union's majority ; The effects of the destruction of a union's majority upon the employer's duty to bargain ; The terms of a collective bargaining agreement and the test of good faith ; Defenses to the duty of good-faith bargaining ; Refusal to bargain on the inappropriateness of the unit -- 6. The Taft-Hartley act and the duty to bargain. The background of the Taft-Hartley Act ; Legislative history of Section 8(a) (5) of the Taft-Hartley Act ; The House Bill on the duty to bargain ; The Senate majority report ; The Taft-Hartley Act and the employer's duty to bargain ; The development of board doctrine on the duty to bargain : Duration of designation of union ; Appropriateness of unit ; Individual bargaining and unilateral action ; The duty to bargain as affected by Section 8(d) ; The duty to bargain as affected by unlawful or unprotected conduct of employees ; Refusal to furnish information ; Mandatory subject matter for collective bargaining ; Good-faith bargaining in general ; The duty to bargain in good faith as affected by the imposition of conditions on bargaining -- 7. The impact of the duty to bargain. Introduction ; The existing evidence of the effectiveness of the duty to bargain ; The impact of the duty to bargain : the empirical evidence ; Dr. Brown's study ; An empirical analysis of the duty to bargain ; Meritorious formal cases which resulted in contracts or other compliance ; Meritorious formal cases which did not result in contracts ; Cases closed in compliance with an intermediate report ; Meritorious 8(a) (5) cases, closed upon compliance with an intermediate report, in which contracts were signed ; Meritorious refusal-to-bargain charges which did not proceed to a formal hearing ; Informally adjusted meritorious cases, involving recognition as a major issue, in which contracts were executed ; Informally adjusted meritorious refusal-to-bargain charges involving recognition which did not result in a contract ; Informally adjusted meritorious refusal-to-bargain cases, involving unilateral action, which resulted in a contract ; Informally adjusted meritorious refusal-to-bargain charges on the major issue of bad-faith bargaining ; Meritorious cases in which no contract was signed -- 8. An evaluation of the duty to bargain. The impact of the board upon employer behavior in cases before the board : the legal sanction ; The impact of the board upon employer behavior in situations where court enforcement was not invoked ; An appraisal of non-compliance ; The strategic role of the duty to bargain -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.
Providence, Brown University Press [1965]