Labor-management cooperation: summary of the Electromation Case
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The Electromation case concerns the use of employee involvement committees in a nonunion workplace. The Administrative Law Judge held on Apr 5, 1990 that the company had unlawfully controlled the committees and the National Labor Relations Board is now reviewing the case. These committees were established as a way of dealing with morale problems resulting from a change in the attendance rules. Participation was voluntary. The Administrative Law Judge found that the committees were 'labor organizations' and that the company engaged in an unfair labor practice by exerting undue control over them.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1992
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Electromation: what could have been but wasn't
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The legality of employer/employee participatory programs remained unsettled despite the NLRB's rulings in Electromation and E.I. Dupont and the passage of Teamwork for Employees and Managers Act of 1995. NLRB decisions following these two cases indicated a return to a more restrictive view of participatory programs similar to decisions prior to Automation and E.I. Dupont. The NLRB's has been inconsistent in how it defined the "dealing with" and "continued existence" elements of section 8(a)(2) of the National Labor Relations Act.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1998
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Employee involvement groups: the outcry over the NLRB's Electromation decision
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The NLRB's ruling in the Electromation case that employee participation committees violated Section 8(a)(2) of the National Labor Relations Act as an employer-dominated labor organization was ill-advised. These committees have been a boon to productivity and competitiveness and may now have to endure litigation in order to stay alive. Some employers may decide the gains of these committees outweigh the legal risk of ignoring Electromation. The problem may only be solved by legislation.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1993
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