Unconventional Being: Poems by Guy Farmer

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Red Union Policy Amended by N.L.R.B." New York Times. October 25, 1953; "NLRB Moves to Curb Fraud In Union Oaths." Associated Press. October 25, 1953. Richfield Oil Corp., 110 NLRB 356 (1954), enf'd. 231 F.2d 717 (D.C. Cir., 1956), cert. den'd. 351 US 909 (1956).

Sections of the Taft-Hartley Act were designed to overturn these rulings. In November 1946, voters elected Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. These Republicans were outraged by the NLRB's captive audience rulings. [66] When Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, Section 8(c) specifically allowed captive audience meetings so long as the employer made no threat of reprisal, threat of force, or promised any benefits during the meeting. [67] The rulings were American Tube Bending, 44 NLRB 121 (1942), overturn'd, NLRB v. American Tube Bending Co., 134 F.2d 993 (2d Cir. 1943), cert. den'd. 320 US 708 (1943); and Clark Brothers Co., 70 NLRB 802 (1946). See: Witney, p. 229 In addition, Greenlane Organics, a 400-sow farrow-to-finish setup at Sandringham, is run on behalf of the Organic Pig Company, producing pork for Waitrose. The NLRB's conflicting rulings on "hot cargo" clauses led to national policy debates which were only resolved five years later. In 1959, Congress enacted the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, which banned even voluntary "hot cargo" clauses. [161] Replacing the General Counsel [ edit ]The administration settled on Albert Beeson as its nominee. The 47-year-old Beeson was an economist (not an attorney) who had been a researcher for the United States Rubber Corporation in 1941, director of industrial relations for National Union Radio Corporation from 1942 to 1947, and director of industrial relations for the Food Machinery & Chemical Corporation after 1947. [46] He had also been vice president of the Employers Council of Santa Clara County, Calif., and the California Personnel Management Association— employers' organizations which (in part) opposed labor unions and promoted labor relations models designed to maximize management rights while minimizing worker demands for unions. [46] Beeson was a personal friend of Vice President Richard Nixon and United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. (who had strongly supported the Eisenhower campaign in 1952). [7] :100 Nixon and Brownell both recommended Beeson on November 27 for the open NLRB position. [7] :100 Secretary of Labor Mitchell preferred another candidate, but switched his support to Beeson after talking to Nixon. [7] :100 Beeson was also touted by Secretary of Commerce Weeks on December 14, after several of Weeks' friends recommended him. [7] :100 Farmer, too, recommended Beeson, as he had worked with him when Farmer had served as the Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. general counsel. [47] Beeson's name first surfaced in the press on January 4, 1954. [48] He was formally nominated on January 7. [46]

He said: "This is not commercial farming but it's also not a vanity project. We almost broke even last year," he said. Jurisdiction was a major issue for Farmer. The NLRA permitted the Board to exercise jurisdiction only over those businesses engaged in substantial interstate commerce. Farmer believed that the Board had interpreted "interstate commerce" and "substantial" far too broadly, and that the NLRB should get out of the business of regulating the labor relations of local small businesses. [59] [7] :96 The appointment of Rodgers to the Board did not, however, give Farmer the majority he wanted. Farmer believed that the Act only covered businesses with 25 or more employees, while Rodgers believed that the Act reached only those businesses with large cash flows. [7] :329 Beeson was skeptical of both plans because he wanted employers to be protected by the Taft-Hartley Act, and felt that state labor law did not provide this level of protection. [7] :329 Farm advisors like Sian Williams from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust, support Jordans farmers and value their important contribution to conservation.

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You can rewild small areas successfully but is it really rewilding if whatever you do on that scale has to be managed to maintain it. To support the top line predators you are going to need thousands of thousands of acres." I think we look at sustainability in terms of the environment and our carbon footprint, but we forget that no business is sustainable unless we have got the staff to run it.

a b c d e f Knowles, Clayton. "Beeson Wins N.L.R.B. Post, 45-42, After Senate Fight." New York Times. February 19, 1954. Oberer, Walter E.; Hanslowe, Kurt L.; and Heinsz, Timothy J. Cases and Materials on Labor Law: Collective Bargaining in a Free Society. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1994. But captive audience meetings, a majority of the board felt, were different. A captive audience meeting occurs when an employer requires employees to meet on company time and listen to anti-union speech. After NLRB v. Virginia Electric & Power Co., the NLRB continued to issue rulings that held that captive audience meetings were a per se violation of the NLRA. [64] [65] :84 Logan Jr., Charles P. "The 'Hot Cargo' Dilemma - Local 1976, Etc. v. National Labor Relations Board (Sand Door Case)." Maryland Law Review. 18:318 (1958), p. 319, accessed 2013-01-30; "Hot Cargo Clause and Its Effect Under the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947." Washington University Law Quarterly. 1958:227 (1958), p. 228–229, accessed 2013-01-30.It's got to work economically, you've got to be able to make a living out of it but the problem is that you are competing with low wage economies like Turkey."