Summaries of Legislative Proposals Relating to Labor-management Relations in Agriculture, as Introduced in the 92d Congress Through April 1972

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Prepared by CRS for the Subcom on Agricultural Labor. Contains summaries of legislative proposals before the subcom relating to labor-management relations in agriculture (p. 5-13), a tabular comparison of the major provisions of the bills (p. 14), and the texts of the bills: H.R. 1410, identical to H.R. 2546, H.R. 3571, and H.R. 4438; H.R. 1689, the Consumer Agricultural Food Protection Act of 1971; H.R. 3625; H.R. 5010, the Farm Workers' Bill of Rights; H.R. 10445; H.R. 10459, the National Farm Labor Relations Act; and H.R. 13981, the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (p. 15-184).

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Page 121 - Upon such filing the court shall cause notice thereof to be served upon such person, and thereupon shall have jurisdiction of the proceeding and of the question determined therein, and shall have power to grant such temporary relief or restraining order as it deems just and proper...
Page 110 - That any individual employee or a group of employees shall have the right at any time to present grievances to their employer...
Page 94 - supervisor' means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibility to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.
Page 189 - ... employment to use, manufacture, process, transport, or otherwise, handle or work on any goods, articles, materials, or commodities or to perform any services...
Page 186 - ... a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or from an apprenticeship or from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes...
Page 127 - Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business...
Page 145 - It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer — (1) To interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7. (2) To dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute financial or other support to it.
Page 147 - It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents — "(1) to restrain or coerce (A) employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7: Provided, That this paragraph shall not impair the right of a labor organization to prescribe its own rules with respect to the acquisition or retention of membership therein...
Page 184 - Experience has further demonstrated that certain practices by some labor organizations, their officers, and members have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce...
Page 131 - Nothing in this Act, except as specifically provided for herein, shall be construed so as either to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike, or to affect the limitations or qualifications on that right.

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