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114 national lawyers guild reviewA Select Committee of Congress should launch an immediate and thoroughinvestigation of the circumstances under which torture was authorizedand rationalized. The high officials of our government and their lawyerswho advised them should be investigated and prosecuted by a Special Prosecutor,independent of the Justice Department, for their crimes. John Yoo,Jay Byee, and David Addington should be subjected to particular scrutinybecause of the seriousness of their roles in misusing the rule of law and legalanalysis to justify torture and other crimes in flagrant violation of domesticand international law.Give Back to the GuildFor information about opportunities to support the National Lawyers Guildthrough planned giving, contact Marjorie Suisman, Esq. at (617) 589-3836.Bequests: Include the National Lawyers Guild in your will or estate plan and leavea legacy of defending civil rights and civil liberties to future generations. Requestinformation on making gifts of life insurance, retirement plan benefits, stock,property, cash or proceeds from a charitable trust.Stock Gifts: Save on capital gains taxes and make your contribution withstock or mutual fund shares instead of cash. If you have appreciated securitiesworth more than you paid for them, you gain a charitable deduction for the fullfair market value of the shares and avoid capital gains tax.Charitable Gift Annuity: Establish a charitable gift annuity and you, orsomeone you choose, will receive fixed income for life. You can use your incomepayments for current financial needs, or defer them until you retire, and you qualifyfor an income tax deduction the year you make the gift.Do you value the work that the National Lawyers Guild does?Has a Guild attorney helped you or someone you know?Please help the Guild continue its work—work it has been doing for over 65 years and,with your support, will continue doing.As long as we are needed, we will be there.
Henry M. WillisORGANIZING—WITH OR WITHOUTTHE NLRB: The Short-TermProspects for RestoringWorkers’ Right to OrganizeThe National Labor Relations Act came into being 75 years ago,at a time when workers had no legally protected right to organize and theonly way to win union recognition for most industrial workers was to strikefor it. The year before the passage of the Act had seen massive strikes overthe right to union representation that sometimes resembled insurrections, asgovernors imposed martial law while strikers fought strikebreakers and thepolice. 1 Congress hoped to bring that sort of economic warfare within limitsby encouraging collective bargaining as a means of resolving labor disputesand by giving workers a peaceful, effective method to choose whether theywanted union representation. 2Has the Act succeeded? Twenty-five years after passage of the Act, itappeared to have delivered both stable labor relations and mature collectivebargaining relationships, at least in the most organized areas of the economy. 3By the fiftieth anniversary of the Act, however, that optimism had almostentirely disappeared as the rate of unionization had dropped steadily, while aRepublican filibuster had stopped the first serious effort by labor to strengthenthe NLRA’s protections for wrongly fired employees. 4And now, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the NLRA, both the Actand the NLRB look less relevant than ever. The shortcomings of the Actare clearest when it comes to protecting workers’ right to organize: as onerecent study finds, employers made illegal threats of plant closures in morethan half of organizing drives and fired union supporters in more than a thirdof them. 5 These problems are even more acute in those low-wage industriesin which a large number of workers are undocumented. 6The Board has no effective remedies for most of these violations: Gissel7 bargaining orders typically come years after the original campaign hasbeen defeated, while appeals to the Board and the courts can force firedworkers to wait years for reinstatement and backpay. Not surprisingly, thenumber of NLRB-conducted elections has dropped precipitously in the past_________________Henry Willis is a labor lawyer practicing in Los Angeles and a former co-editor of theNational Lawyers Guild Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law.
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