Some Reflections on the Future Development of Collective Representation and Individual Rights in the Workplace
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I will hazard the prediction that even with the passage of strikebreaker legislation, collective bargaining as we know it is not likely to be a dominant, or even important, feature of employment in this country. While this is not the place for a detailed account of the causes of union decline, I am skeptical of the view that the principal cause is employer illegality facilitated by the remedial deficiencies of our basic labor law, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Employer opposition and a relatively toothless labor law have been constants throughout the history of American unionism, and yet union density rose significantly in the 1930s and 1940s and has declined ever since.
Source Publication
Proceedings of the New York University 45th Annual National Conference on Labor
Source Editors/Authors
Bruno Stein
Publication Date
1993
Recommended Citation
Estreicher, Samuel, "Some Reflections on the Future Development of Collective Representation and Individual
Rights in the Workplace" (1993). Faculty Chapters. 477.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/477
