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Power on the job : the legal rights of working people
- Title
- Power on the job : the legal rights of working people / Michael Yates.
- Author
- Yates, Michael, 1946-
- Publication
- Boston, MA : South End Press, ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | KF3464 .Y38 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 318 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States
- Sex discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States
- Labor unions > Law and legislation > United States
- Labor laws and legislation > United States
- Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor unions > Law and legislation
- Sex discrimination in employment > Law and legislation
- Arbeitsrecht
- Koalitionsfreiheit
- Arbeitsbeziehungen
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Introduction: The working life -- This book's philosophy -- How the book is organized -- pt. 2. Discrimination: Beep, beep, Yale is cheap: the Yale strike, 1985 -- Historical background -- The civil right laws -- Enforcement and penalties -- pt. 3. Organizing a union: history lessons: Eugene Debs and the Pullman strike, 1894 -- Some historical background -- The state's police power -- Early statute law -- pt. 4. Organizing a union: the current law: Mike and Jane start a union -- The basic labor law statutes -- The Railway Labor Act -- The National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) -- Organizing a union without the NLRB -- Workers not covered by the National Labor Relations Act -- pt. 5. The law of collective bargaining: Bargaining in the 1980s: the Hormel strike, 1985 -- The laws of collective bargaining -- The Railway Labor Act -- Public employees -- pt. 6. The weapons of war: The Pittston strike, 1989 -- Strikes -- Picketing -- Boycotts -- Injunctions -- pt. 7. The democratic rights of union members: Teamsters take back their union -- The Landrum-Griffin Act -- Unions and their members: the duty of fair representation -- pt. 8. The constitution: Mr. Pickering's letter -- The constitution and the right of workers -- The constitution and the rights of groups of workers -- pt. 9. At-will employment: My brother gets fired -- At-will employment and wrongful discharge -- pt. 10. Health, safety, wages, and hours: The clothes that we wear -- The Fair Labor Standards Act -- The Occupational Safety and Health Act -- Glossary of labor law terms -- Index of cases cited -- Appendixes: I. Researching the labor law -- II. Useful forms and charts.
- ISBN
- 0896084981
- 9780896084988
- 0896084973
- 9780896084971
- LCCN
- 94032615
- OCLC
- ocm31132724
- 31132724
- SCSB-2042555
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library