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Labor/Employment

Aug. 26, 2009

'Penn' Is Mightier Than Decades of Court Precedent

Catherine L. Fisk is the chancellor's professor at UC Irvine School of Law. She writes and teaches in the area of labor and employment law, legal profession and civil procedure.

By Catherine L. Fisk
Since well before the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations Act, most unionized workplaces had a grievance and arbitration system, paid for by the company and by union dues, for the resolution of disputes arising under the collective bargaining agreement. As Congress enacted various statutes providing additional protections for employees, beginning with the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 and continuing through the 1990 Americans wi...

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