Herbert Hill

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
National Labor Relations Board ◽  
Colored People ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
De Jure Segregation ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
Employment Rights

This chapter presents a portrait of Herbert Hill, who identified himself as “an unreconstructed abolitionist.” As labor secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he was a combatant in a war against men and women who, by history, politics, and religion, should have been in his camp. Hill was a brilliant and determined crusader who made the most of the limited legal remedies available against workplace discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s. He brought actions before the National Labor Relations Board to decertify unions that violated the nondiscrimination provision in federal contracts, and he carried cases against both labor unions and employers to state antidiscrimination commissions. Hill consciously fashioned this employment rights campaign after the larger NAACP fight to dismantle de jure segregation and discrimination in education, housing, and at the ballot box. He drafted an effective and widely distributed NAACP Labor Manual that described the complex gamut of discrimination tactics in the workplace and advised African Americans that the NAACP was ready to aid them in their fight against such inequities.

scholarly journals Columbia University and Incarcerated Worker Labor Unions Under the National Labor Relations Act

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Goad
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
National Labor Relations Act ◽  
National Labor Relations Board ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Law Library

Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research PapersKara Goad’s research examines the forms and terms of labor that incarcerated workers perform in American prisons, seeking to demonstrate that labor law could provide potential remedies for work-related grievances.Goad’s research includes traditional statutory and case law analysis along with examinations of prison statistics, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions and other administrative law materials relating to prisons and labor law. She uses her findings lay out a path for incarcerated workers to potentially unionize under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

Union Responses to Workforce Feminization in the United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Large Female ◽  
National Labor Relations Board ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter examines how labor unions responded to workforce feminization that began in the 1970s. It first places the relationship of women to unions in historical perspective before analyzing empirical data on inter-union variations in the extent of women's representation in union membership and leadership in the late twentieth century, as well as variations in the extent and nature of attention to “women's issues” on the part of unions. It then explores the dynamics of union organizing in the 1980s, showing that workplaces with large female majorities were the most readily organized in that period—as measured by the probability of winning National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) union representation elections. It also considers the growing commitment of some unions in the 1970s and 1980s to gender equality issues and to incorporating women into positions of leadership. Finally, it discusses the innovative gender politics that has emerged in unions least constrained by the forces of deunionization or patriarchal traditions.

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