Publication Date
1970
Abstract
COLLECTIVE bargaining became the keystone of our national labor policy with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935. The central role of this procedure was preserved in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts. By choosing collective bargaining as the principal instrument of labor market control, Congress sought to remove sources of industrial strife by a method which preserved private determination free from either unchecked employer power or smothering governmental control. An additional attribute of this device has been pointed out by Professor Clyde Summers:
Collective bargaining . . . was historically conceived as something more than an ingenious gimmick of economic self-regulation by countervailing power.... Collective bargaining, as a national policy, is intended to be an instrument of industrial democracy and that national policy presupposes that the workers will have a voice through their union in determining the terms and conditions of their employment.
Recommended Citation
Beaird, James R.
(1970)
"Some Aspects of the LMRDA Reporting Requirements,"
Georgia Law Review: Vol. 4:
No.
4, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol4/iss4/5