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3 Lab. Rel. Law. Letter [i] (1970)

handle is hein.journals/laboemplo3 and id is 1 raw text is: the Labor Relaflons Law Lelier Section of Labor Relations Law oi tihe Americn Dar Association 1155 E. 60th St., Chicago, Illinois 60637 VOLUME III, NUMBER 1, APRIL 1970 HOUSE DELEGATES ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON NATIONAL EMERGENCY DISPUTES At its mid-year meeting in Atlanta on February 23 and 24, 1970, the House of Delegates of the Association, having before it a Final Report and recommendations of the ABA Special Committee on National Strikes in the Transportation Indus- tries, adopted the following resolution which will be of great interest to members of the Section: As to recommendation number 2 above the Board of Governors agreed to defer action on this and to recommend instead the following: The Board recommends that action be deferred until the 1970 Annual Meeting to permit study and consultation between the Committees on Commerce and National Strikes in the Transportation Industries and the Section of Labor Relations Law, and that they be directed to report to the Board in May, 1970, on the nature and extent of consulta- tion. The House of Delegates adopted this recommendation of the Board of Governors. In this connection it was agreed that the Chairman and Chairman Elect of our Section will designate a liaison committee of four to six people who will meet with the ABA's Committee on National Strikes in the Transportation Indus- tries prior to May 1970 to assure that the views of our Section are reflected in the report to be made to the Board of Governors at its May meeting. No. 1. Be It Resolved, .that the American Bar Association urges the enactment by Congress of legislation that would amend the Federal Labor Laws in order to provide new and additional post-impasse procedures that would apply to railroads, airlines, the maritime industry, and the motor carrier industry. A. The Congress should enact immediate legislation within the following framework. I. The statute should find and declare that (a) in our society the primary responsibility for improving the machinery of collective bargaining and also for arranging methods of assuring the settlement of labor disputes without strikes or lockouts causing irreparable public injury, rests upon the industries and unions most immediately concerned; (b) under existing labor laws, collective bargaining in several important instances is not adequately safe- guarding the public against severe impact from strikes or lockouts in the railroad, airline and maritime (including both offshore and longshore), and motor carrier industries without extraordinary and ad hoc intervention by Government; (c) new standing safeguards are urgently required; (d) although Government may be compelled to impose methods of settlement, that step should not be taken until each industry has been afforded an opportunity to establish voluntary safeguards with such public assistance as it may require. 2. The President should appoint, after consultation with the representatives of management and labor, a tripartite commission for each industry. Such commission shall consist of not less than two nor more than five representa- tives of management and labor, respectively, who shall be empowered to vote on a final report and recommendation; and not more than three non-voting public members, one of whom shall be the Chairman. The Committee shall be charged with (a) developing for the industry an agreed plan for elimina- ting or minimizing the danger of strikes or lockouts which impair the national security or threaten serious (continued on page 2) SECTION MEETING IN ST. LOUIS TO FOCUS ON LABOR LAW IN THE SEVENTIES Section Chairman Harry Benjamin has drawn tentative plans for our Section meeting in St. Louis on August 10 and 11, which promises to be a very valuable, interesting and informative meeting. The theme of the St. Louis meeting will be A Look Ahead-Accent on the Seventies. Among the features currently planned for the meeting are the following: 1) A review of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the labor law area during the past year by Section Secretary Professor Theodore St. Antoine. 2) A keynote speech by a prominent labor official of the Administration. 3) Presentations by leading representatives of the NLRB, EEOC and other Government agencies dealing with labor law problems. 4) A panel discussion on Industrial Relations in the Public Sector. 5) A prominent speaker at our Section luncheon which will also feature a salute to the ILO in recognition of its fiftieth anniversary year. The program obviously is in a very rough state at the present time but we merely wanted to give members of the Section a general preview of the program which is being planned. The full program in all its detail will be announced in the next issue of the Labor Law Letter.

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