Labor Rights, Under Republican Attack - NYTimes.com

Monument commemorating the great Flint sit-down strike

My grandfather called the Wagner Act "the working man's bill of rights".    The National Labor Relations Act protects the right to unionize and act collectively.  Businesses are free to do what they want - but if a union is recognized they cannot act in retaliation for collective action.  In other words - the business judgment rule does not permit an illegally motivated act.  It is that fundamental principle which is at stake in the Boeing case.  Three law professors (one is Fordham's James Brudney) explain what is at stake. - GWC
Labor Rights, Under Republican Attack - NYTimes.com: "In the past month, the National Labor Relations Board has come under furious attack from Republicans in Congress, and decades-old workers’ rights are at risk. Backed by a well-financed lobbying and publicity offensive, Republicans are using a recent labor-law complaint against Boeing to achieve a radical goal that goes far beyond the legal issues in the case: unraveling workers’ rights that have been part of the fabric of our social contract since the Great Depression."

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