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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- 22 Obtaining a First Contract after Winning Recognition
- 23 Advancing Global Labor Standards
- 24 Organizing for Workplace Rights When Immigration Law Discourages It
- 25 The Central Role of the Right to Strike
- 26 Organizational Power for Workers within the Firm
- 27 Returning Members-Only Collective Bargaining to the American Workplace
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
26 - Organizational Power for Workers within the Firm
from Part V - Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- 22 Obtaining a First Contract after Winning Recognition
- 23 Advancing Global Labor Standards
- 24 Organizing for Workplace Rights When Immigration Law Discourages It
- 25 The Central Role of the Right to Strike
- 26 Organizational Power for Workers within the Firm
- 27 Returning Members-Only Collective Bargaining to the American Workplace
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Summary
The United States has a multidimensional set of employment law protections. From minimum wage and health and safety standards to antidiscrimination and antiretaliation protections, the law provides specific standards and structures to shield workers from egregious employer behavior and remedy the harms inflicted. These mandatory protections dovetail with the organizational power that labor law is intended to confer. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) provides for worker representation and obligates employers to bargain with these representatives over terms and conditions of employment. Labor law specifically provides employees with representation and requires management to negotiate with those representatives. And labor law professors have marveled at the spare commands of the NLRA and the depth of the Board’s interpretive nuance, as refined over 80 years.
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