Construction Site Picketing: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9070 [and Other] Bills to Amend the National Labor Relations Act with Regard to Construction Site Picketing ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 363 pages

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Page 40 - It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents — * * * (4) to engage in, or to induce or encourage the employees of any employer to engage in, a strike or a concerted refusal in the course of their employment to use, manufacture, process, transport, or otherwise handle or work on any goods, articles, materials, or commodities or to perform any services...
Page 228 - ... (A) forcing or requiring any employer or selfemployed person to join any labor or employer organization or any employer or other person to cease using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in the products of any other producer, processor, or manufacturer, or to cease doing business with any other person...
Page 316 - Act be clarified by making it explicit that concerted action against (1) an employer who is performing "farmed out" work for the account of another employer whose employees are on strike or (2) an employer on a construction project who, together with other employers, is engaged in work on the site of the project, will not be treated as a secondary boycott.
Page 228 - HR 9070. (b) It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents— ****** * (4) (I) to engage in, or to induce or encourage any individual employed by any person engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce...
Page 358 - Provided, That nothing contained in this clause (B) shall be construed to make unlawful, where not otherwise unlawful, any primary strike or primary picketing...
Page 360 - ... commodities for commerce, can be avoided or substantially minimized if employers, employees, and labor organizations each recognize under law one another's legitimate rights in their relations with each other, and above all, recognize under law that neither party has any right in its relations with any other to engage in acts or practices which jeopardize the public health, safety, or interest.
Page 34 - The picketing would undoubtedly have been legal if there had been no subcontractor involved — if the general contractor had put nonunion men on the job. The presence of a subcontractor does not alter one whit the realities of the situation; the protest of the union is precisely the same.
Page 347 - labor dispute" includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
Page 347 - That nothing in this subsection (e) shall apply to an agreement between a labor organization and an employer in the construction industry relating to the contracting or subcontracting of work to be done at the site of the construction, alteration, painting or repair of a building, structure, or other work: Provided further, That for the purposes of this subsection (e) and section 8(b)(4)(B) the terms 'any employer', 'any person engaged in commerce or an industry affecting commerce
Page 295 - Board, affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in what is known as the case of Denver Building and Construction Trades Council (341 US 675 (1951)).

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