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Labor Law - Law 7315 
Professor Kaminshine 
E-mail: skaminshine@gsu.edu  
Phone: 404-651-2044 

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Required Text
Casebook: Cox, Bok, Gorman & Finkin, Labor Law: Cases and Materials (12th ed.)
Supplement: 1996 Statutory Supplement 
Coverage and Assignments

I. INTRODUCTION 

Assignment: Handout 
2. Administration of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRB Jurisdiction and Procedure) 
Assignment: Handout 
II. ORGANIZATION AND REPRESENTATION OF EMPLOYEES 

3. Section 8(a)(1) and/or Objectionable Conduct; Employee Access and Employer Property Rights 

Assignment: CB pp. 113-134; Handout 
4. Section 8(a)(1) and/or Objectionable conduct: Regulation of Campaign Speech 
Assignment: CB pp. 143-168; prepare note 3 at pp. 150-51 
5. Section 8(a)(1) and/or Objectionable Conduct: Interrogation, Promise or Grant of Benefits, Union Misconduct 
Assignment: CB pp. 168-187 
6. Section 8(a)(2): Company Domination and Support 
Assignment: Handout; CB pp. 187-221 
7. Section 8(a)(3): Discrimination 
Assignment: CB pp. 221-226; 237-251 
8. Bargaining Orders Without Elections and Other Remedies 
Assignment: CB pp. 254-264, 311-329 
9. Duration of Union's Representative Status (loss of majority support; successors) 
Assignment: CB pp. 333-350 
III. REGULATION OF ECONOMIC WEAPONS 

10. Protected and Unprotected Activity 

Assignment: CB pp. 494-529; Handout 
11. Employer Countermeasures Against Protected Activity 
Assignment: CB pp. 529-549; 555-557; 563-567 (insert last group of pages at p. 531 note 2); Handout 
12. Direct Regulation of Strikes, Picketing & Boycotts (Constitutional Background, Recognitional Picketing) 
Assignment: CB pp. 69-73; 567-583; 591-595; NLRA § 8(b)(7) 
13. Direct Regulation (Secondary Boycotts) 
Assignment: 

(1) Primary/ Secondary Distinction: Handout; CB pp. 610-613; 615-621; 626-635; NLRA § 8(b)(4)(B) 

(2) Consumer Boycotts CB pp. 577-583; 635-651; NLRA § 8(b)(4)(B) 
IV. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING - SECTIONS 8(a)(5) and 8(d) 

14. Exclusive Recognition and Majority Rule 

Assignment: CB pp. 353-368; Handout 
15. The Duty to Bargain 
Assignment: CB pp. 374-408; 413-418 (insert at p. 385) 
16. The Subjects of Bargaining 
Assignment: CB pp. 408-413, 419-461; Handout 
V. JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS - SECTION 301 OF THE LMRA** 

17. Enforcement of the Promise to Arbitrate 

Assignment: CB pp. 724-743; 754-768 
18. Arbitration and Federal Statutory Rights 
Assignment: CB pp. 786-800; 804-812; 801-804; Handout (Gilmer) 
19. Arbitration and State Law Claims (the preemptive effect of Section 301) 
Assignment: CB pp. 1025-1035 

 

** Optional and unlikely. We will cover this topic only if there is extra time. 

Resource Materials

ON RESERVE 

  • Gorman, Labor Law - Basic Text (1976 ed.)(Hornbook). 
  • orris, The Developing Labor Law (1983 ed.)(2 volumes).
  • Weiler, "Promises to Keep: Securing Workers' Rights to Self Organization Under the NLRA," 96 Harv. Law Review 1796 (1983) (this is required and must be read by the completion of topic 7) 
REPORTER SERVICES 
  • Bureaus of National Affairs (BNA), Labor Relations Reporter (weekly service reporting NLRB and court labor decisions). 
  • BNA, Daily Labor Reporter (daily report of current labor issues and cases). 
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