James A. Gross NLRB Oral Histories
Collection Number: /4351 OH
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
James A. Gross NLRB Oral
Histories, 2014-2015
Collection Number:
/4351 OH
Creator:
Gross, James A.;
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
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Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Oral history interviews of former National Labor Relations
Board members.
Language:
Collection material in
Professor Gross teaches Labor Law, Labor Arbitration, and a course entitled Values,
Rights and Justice in Economics, Law, and Industrial Relations. He received his B.S.
from LaSalle College, M.A. from Temple University, and Ph.D. from University of
Wisconsin.
Professor Gross is a member of National Academy of Arbitrators and on the labor
arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service and New York State Public Employment Relations Board, as well
as being a panelist named in several
contracts.[www.ilr.cornell.edu/directory/jag28/biography.htm]
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was created in 1935 under the authority of
the National Labor Relations Act (popularly known as the Wagner Act). Its purpose
was to implement and administer the Wagner Act which affirmed the right of employees
to organize and designate representatives for collective bargaining. Beyond the
Board's Wagner Act powers, the War Labor Disputes Act of 1943 authorized the NLRB to
intervene to settle wartime labor disputes which threatened to impede war
production. The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (popularly known as the
Taft-Hartley Act), as amended, defined additional practices forbidden to organized
labor and limited NLRB generally to judicial and policy-making functions.
The NLRB created under the Wagner Act was preceded by two earlier Boards created by
President Roosevelt. The National Labor Board was established in 1933 for the
purpose of adjusting industrial disputes resulting from the president's Reemployment
Agreement or approved code of fair competition under the National Industrial
Recovery Act (NIRA). The Labor Board was replaced less than a year later by the
first National Labor Relations Board. Both early Boards functioned through regional
offices to deal with labor controversies in the field. The first NLRB ceased to
function after the NIRA was declared unconstitutional in May of 1935.
Prof. Gross interviews former chairman of the NLRB, William B. Gould IV. He also
interviews Dennis Walsh who had been a board member, and prior to that, the chief
counsel to two board members.
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Cite As:
James A. Gross NLRB Oral Histories #/4351 OH. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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/4057 P: James A. Gross NLRB Photographs
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/4166: James A. Gross Additional NLRB Research Files
/4166 AV: James A. Gross Additional NLRB Research Audio- Visual Materials
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | 2015 | |
Box 1 | Folder 2 | 2014 | |
August 18, 2014.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | 2014 | |
November 14, 2014.
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