Bulletin of Department of Organization

(November 1959)

Amendments to Taft-Hartley incorporated in the new Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 has some effects on organizing. Title VII of the new law has sections dealing with the traditional trade union practices of organizational and recognition picketing. They make an unfair labor practice of picketing or threatening to picket for recognition or organizing purposes:

1) If the employer has lawfully recognized another union and a question of representation may not appropriately be raised; or

2) If a valid representation election was held within the preceding twelve months; or

3) Picketing has been conducted for more than thirty days without an election petition's having been filed.

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update 25 July 2008