• Recognize the significance of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
• Discover the structure and authority of the National Labor Relations Board.
• Identify the rights of employees and employers in the NLRA.
• Compare and contrast union and employer unfair labor practices.
• Correlate the NLRA to union organization and collective bargaining.

The NLRA

1. Federal Law enacted in 1935. Few amendments – New Deal legislation
2. Authorizes unionization and collective bargaining
3. Applies only to private employers
4. Protects rights to exclusive representation and collective bargaining

The NLRA creates the National Labor Relations Board (discuss structure and authority)

1. The Board
2. The General Counsel
3. Administrative Law Judges
4. Regional Offices

Section 7 of the NLRA

1. Employee right to join/form a union
2. Employee right to refrain from such activity
3. Protected Concerted Activity (applies to nonunion employees too)

Section 8 of the NLRA

1. Employer unfair labor practices
2. Union unfair labor practices
3. Duty of Fair Representation
4. Remedies

Section 9 of the NLRA: How employers are organized/How employees are unionized

1. Voluntary recognition
2. NLRB supervised election
   1. Petition for election
   2. Majority of voters (50% plus 1)
3. Bargaining Order

Collective Bargaining

1. Information Requests
2. Good Faith Bargaining v. Bad Faith Bargaining
3. Hard Bargaining

Economic Weapons During Bargaining

1. Economic Strike
2. ULP Strike
3. Lockout
4. Corporate Campaigns
5. Picketing and Bannering

Administering the CBA

1. Business Agents and Union Stewards
2. Grievance and Arbitration Procedure