Publication Date
1970
Abstract
RECENTLY, the Nixon Administration sent to Congress a bill 1 designed to amend the emergency disputes procedures of our federal labor laws. This is the first time a President has sent such a proposal to Congress since the emergency disputes provisions were first written into law. My purpose shall be to discuss this proposal. In the early days of the Nixon Administration, we, in the Labor Department, were given a mandate to examine the emergency disputes provisions of our national labor laws. We began by asking ourselves how effective the present laws had been in providing a climate for the private settlement of labor disputes in which grave disruption to the flow of our nation's essential needs was avoided. More specifically, we asked how frequently had there been resort to the emergency disputes procedures. Did such emergency disputes outlive the term of the prescribed cooling-off periods? Were there in any industry recurring disputes requiring frequent governmental intervention?
Recommended Citation
Silberman, Laurence H.
(1970)
"National Emergency Disputes-The Considerations Behind a Legislative Proposal,"
Georgia Law Review: Vol. 4:
No.
4, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol4/iss4/4