Gross, James A. NLRB Oral Histories, 2014-2015
Collection Number: /4351 OH
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
James A. Gross NLRB Oral Histories, 2014-2015
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/4351 OH
Abstract:
Oral history interviews of former National Labor Relations Board members.
Creator:
Gross, James A.
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
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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James A. Gross NLRB Oral Histories #/4351 OH. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
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Related Collections: /4057: James A. Gross NLRB Files /4057 AV: James A. Gross NLRB Audiocassettes /4057 P: James A. Gross NLRB Photographs /4079: James A. Gross Additional Files /4124: James A. Gross Papers, Additional NLRB Research Files /4166: James A. Gross Additional NLRB Research Files /4166 AV: James A. Gross Additional NLRB Research Audio- Visual Materials /4186: James A. Gross Additional Research Files /4190: James A. Gross Additional Research Files /4232: James A. Gross Collection of NLRB 60th Annual Conference Files /4285: James A. Gross Research Files Additional /4349: James A. Gross Collections
5697: James A. Gross Arbitration Files 5959: James A. Gross Additional Arbitration Files
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Release forms
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2015 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
William B. Gould IV Interview
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2014 |
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Scope and Contents
August 18, 2014.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Dennis Walsh Interview
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2014 |
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Scope and Contents
November 14, 2014.
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