Labor Law

3 units

This course focuses on the National Labor Relations Act, which governs union organizing, collective bargaining, and the use of economic weapons (strikes, lockouts, pickets, and boycotts) in workplace disputes over wealth distribution, power and voice. The course has an explicit focus on class conflict and the law's role in regulating worker protest: it concerns itself with abuses of employer power, the formation of a social movement (labor unionism) as a response to those abuses, and the law's efforts to protect, channel and constrain collective activities by workers. Attendance and preparation are required. Grades will be based on performance on a timed final exam. 3 units.