Decertification

Recent studies include: Dworkin James B. Extejt Marian M. , “Recent Trends in Union Decertification/Deauthorization Elections,” Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting (Industrial Relations Research Association, 1979), pp. 226–234; Krislov Joseph , “Decertification Elections Increase But Remain No Major Burden To Unions,” Monthly Labor Review (November 1979), pp. 30–32; Anderson John Busman Gloria O'Reilly Charles III , “What Factors Influence the Outcome of Decertification Elections,” Monthly Labor Review (November 1979), pp. 32–36; Krupman W. A. Rasin G. I. , “Decertification: Removing the Shroud,” Labor Law Journal (April 1979), pp. 231–41; Fulmer William E. , “When Employees Want to Oust Their Union,” Harvard Business Review (March/April 1978), pp. 163–70.

For a more detailed summary of the legal history of decertification, see Eischen Dana Edward , “An Analysis of Union Decertification under Section 9(c)(1)(a)(ii) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947,” Masters Thesis, Graduate School of Cornell University (September 1968), Chapters 2 and 3.

McDonald Charles Wilson Dick , “Peddling The ‘Union Free’ Guarantee,” AFL-CIO American Federationist (April 1979), p. 13.

National Labor Relations Act, Section I, 49 Stat. 449 (1935).

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor's 1973 Directory of National Union Employee Associations (Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1974), pp. 71–72.

U.S. National Labor Relations Board, First Annual Report (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1936), p. 26.

U.S. National Labor Relations Board, Fifth Annual Report (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1940), p. 12.

Rutland Court Owners', 44, N.L.R.B. 587 (1942), 46 N.L.R.B. 1040 (1943).

Tabardrey Manufacturing Company 51 N.L.R.B. 246 (1943).

Toledo Steel Products, Colonial Life Insurance, Landis Machine Company, 65 N.L.R.B. 56, 58,60, (1945).

93 Daily Congressional Record 3954, (23 April 1947).

U.S National Labor Relations Board, Thirteenth Annual Report (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948), p. 19.

Ibid.

U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings on a Labor Relations Program, 80th Congress, 1st Session, Part I (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947), p. 1918.

Eischen , op. cit., p. 133.

Krislov Joseph , “Union Decertification,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Volume 49 (July 1956), p. 591.

U.S. National Labor Relations Board, Forty-Fourth Annual Report (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979), pp. 18 and 299.