{"product_id":"fulfilling-the-pledge-isbn-9780262547130","title":"Fulfilling the Pledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn insightful and evidence-based assessment of our urgent need to enact labor law reform—and how to achieve it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMillions of non-union workers want unionization, but our current labor-management relations law conspires to deny them meaningful opportunities to secure collective workplace representation. The resulting low rates of collective bargaining impose economic, political, and social costs on us all. In \u003ci\u003eFulfilling the Pledge, \u003c\/i\u003eRoger Hartley addresses the plight of American workers, who face a grim, uncertain future, as the digital workplace reshapes the hierarchical post–World War II industrial relations system that once gave workers a voice. Through empirical evidence and the lens of law and policy, Hartley examines what industrial sociologists call the chronic “representation gap” and clarifies how a wide-ranging movement could build a vocal constituency for the congressional enactment of labor law reform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pledge made in the 1935 National Labor Relations Act to encourage establishment of industrial democracy—where workers possess a voice in their places of work—remains unfulfilled.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eSpeaking to policymakers, scholars, historians, and the average citizen, \u003ci\u003eFulfilling the Pledge\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for collective workplace representation that serves the greater good, even as American labor relations law continues to undermine collective bargaining by workers and becomes\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ean increasingly significant political and social issue.Contents\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI The Unsatisfied Demand for Union Representation and the Costs of a Declining Union Movement \u003cbr\u003e1 What Do Workers Want? 9\u003cbr\u003e 2 The “Representation Gap” and the Societal Costs of Low Union Density 21\u003cbr\u003e 3 Causes: The Revolt of the Bosses 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII The Role of Contemporary Labor Relations Law in Creating Obstacles to Workers’ Desire to Obtain Union Representation\u003cbr\u003e 4 The NLRA’s Restrictions on Coverage: Constricting Eligibility for Legal Protection of the Right to Organize 63\u003cbr\u003e 5 Opportunities in the NLRA during the Representation Process for Employer-Created Delay and Interference with Employee Free  Choice 93\u003cbr\u003e 6 Opportunities in the NLRA for an Employer to Retaliate without Fear of Significant Consequences 117\u003cbr\u003e 7 Opportunities in the NLRA for Employers to Indoctrinate Employees through Work-\u003cbr\u003e Time Captive Audience Meetings while Denying Unions Workplace Access to Employees 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III The Role of Contemporary Labor Relations Law in Creating Obstacles to Employees’ Ability to Secure Favorable Collective Bargaining Terms\u003cbr\u003e 8 Opportunities in the NLRA for Employers to Deny Workers an Initial Collective Bargaining Agreement 141\u003cbr\u003e 9 Opportunities in the NLRA Permitting Employers to Destabilize Existing Bargaining Relationships 153\u003cbr\u003e 10 Opportunities in the NLRA Permitting Employers to Limit Workers’ Economic Actions 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Searching for Solutions beyond the NLRA 179\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 189\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021\u003cbr\u003e (H.R.  842)— Section-by-Section  Analysis 191\u003cbr\u003e Notes 203\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 273\u003cbr\u003e Index 285“In sum, Hartley’s work should be of interest to labor law scholars, labor relations generalists,\u003cbr\u003eand those who struggle to understand why collective bargaining matters for solving many\u003cbr\u003eof the major problems of our day. Even though the author did not intend the book for this\u003cbr\u003epurpose, I believe that it also makes an excellent primer for those who teach labor law or\u003cbr\u003ecourses touching on the NLRA to non-legally trained audiences.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—ILR Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Confirming that workers want union representation and asserting that collective bargaining is in the public’s interest, Roger Hartley’s \u003ci\u003eFulfilling the Pledge\u003c\/i\u003e sets forth in non-legalese a long-needed, comprehensive, achievable and non-ideological program of procedural and substantive labor law reform that, if implemented, would fulfill the often-broken but never disavowed pledge of the Wagner Act that the  federal government would encourage collective bargaining and protect workers in the exercise of their freedom of association  and self-organization.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James Gross, Professor Emeritus, Labor Relations, Law, and History, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Roger Hartley’s spirited deconstruction of the way courts and employers have distorted American labor law provides a forceful argument for a radical and comprehensive reform.  His highly readable book offers workers, unions, legislators, and government officials the road map they need to envision once again the industrial democracy that was the animating ethos put forward by the framers of the 1935 Wagner Act.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of \u003ci\u003eA Fabulous Failure: the Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRoger C. Hartley is Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America and an award-winning teacher of constitutional law and labor law. He is the author of four other books, including \u003ci\u003eMonumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303171903717,"sku":"NP9780262547130","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547130.jpg?v=1767727776","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fulfilling-the-pledge-isbn-9780262547130","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}