Labored Relations : Law, Politics, and the NLRB--A Memoir.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (473 pages)
- The MIT Press Series .
- The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Philosophical Underpinnings -- A Harbinger of Hard Times -- The Confirmation Process -- First-Year Policies and Initiatives -- First Attempts to Implement Reforms -- Balls and Strikes -- The Idea of Independence: The Headless Fourth Branch -- The Coming Storm -- Congress Instructs the NLRB -- The Clamor of Legislators -- The Lights Will Not Go Off -- The House RepublicansÌ ÏNumber 1 EnemyÓ -- The Dilatory Virus -- Notes -- Appendixes -- Statement of William B. Gould IV at His Confirmation -- The National Labor Relations Board Today -- This GenerationÌs Reconciliation -- The Last Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board?: The Law and Politics of Labor Policy in the First Hundred Days -- Tribute to Jack Sheinkman -- Baseball and the Sultan of Swat: The Curse of the Bambino -- A Tale of Two Centrist Countries: Taft-Hartley, the Thatcher Reforms 1997, and All That -- PresidentÌs Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Presented to William R. Stewart -- Campaign Finance Reform and the Union Dues -- Dispute under -- Proposition 226: Political Contributions by Employees, Union Members and Foreign Entities -- Labor, Civil Rights and the Rule of Law: Reflections of the NLRB Chairman -- Resignation Letter -- Letter from President William J. Clinton -- Glossary of Cases -- Board Members and General Counsels of the National Labor Relations Board, 1981Ò 1999 -- Index.
A personally revealing, politically astute memoir by a former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.
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Gould, William B. United States. -- National Labor Relations Board -- Biography. Judges -- United States -- Biography. Unfair labor practices -- United States -- History. Industrial relations -- United States -- History.