Unconventional Being: Poems by Guy Farmer

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Conway's Express, 87 NLRB 972 (1949), enf'd sub nom. in Rabouin d/b/a Conway's Express v. NLRB, 195 F.2d 906 (2d Cir. 1952).

Krug, Mary Ellen and Gammer, Michele A. "Should Representation Elections Be Governed By Principles Or Expediency?" Seattle University Law Review. 9:469 (1986).

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The NLRB nonetheless continued to extend its less-than-a-strike ruling to other union activities. In Valley City Furniture Co., [85] the employer had unilaterally extended the work day by an hour, and union members had refused to work the extra hour. The employer terminated the workers. Members Beeson and Rodgers held that the union had engaged in activity that was short of a strike, and thus the activity was not protected by the act. [86] Similarly, in Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., [87] the employer implemented a seven-day work week. Again, the workers refused to work the extra time, and were terminated the workers. Again, Beeson and Rodgers upheld the terminations. In these two cases, however, Farmer agreed with the reasoning but not the outcome. In a concurrence in Valley City Furniture, Farmer said it was "unduly harsh and legalistic" to allow an employer to "engage in every and all forms of retaliatory or unlawfully motivated discrimination." Farmer argued in Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. that an employer's retaliatory actions should be limited to those activities which interfered the least with employees' concerted activities. [7] :115–116 But his reasoning was not adopted by the other members of the majority. 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] Loftus, Joseph A. "President Names Store Executive Labor Secretary." New York Times. October 9, 1953. After Farmer joined the board, the NLRB issued three major new decisions regarding the anti-communist affidavits. These proved to be the last the board would issue. On October 17, 1953, The Farmer-led board issued a decision which revoked the representation rights of union whose officers had made false anti-communist oaths. [143] Eight days later, the Farmer board announced it would not conduct representative elections for any union whose officers had been indicted for not filing or filing false anti-communist affidavits. [144] Finally, on May 31, 1954, the Farmer board denied the protection of the NLRA to the International Fur & Leather Workers Union after its president, Ben Gold, was indicted for perjury for filing false anti-communist affidavits. It was the first time the NLRB had denied the protection of the law to an entire international union. [145] Although a federal court enjoined the NLRB from disqualifying the Fur & Leather Workers in July 1954, [146] another federal court upheld the NLRB's authority to question the veracity of anti-communist affidavits. [147] This latter decision led the Farmer board to withdraw the protection of the act from a second international union, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. [148] In April 1955, the Farmer board disqualified a third international union, the UE. [149] He said: "The research and development was pretty expensive but we all thought that we have got to find a way. It still has a small amount of oil in it because you simply cannot get the properties that you need without any oil at all.

Loftus, Joseph A. "President Acts to Enhance Labor Secretary's Prestige." New York Times. October 12, 1953. When Gohan (disguised as the Great Saiyaman) zooms by in glee due to the news of Goku returning to Earth for the upcoming 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, the farmer is startled and simply falls over. [5] 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 ]Fábio Brancher, Operations Director – Agriculture, was thrilled to hear the good news and said: “I was happy to see Guy bag this award. For many years Guy has been flying the flag high for the sector and for BQP. He works hard at maintaining his high standards and constantly champions the sector and the BQP model. I want to congratulate him and our other finalist William – as well as all the winners on the night. The event has a huge hit with everyone, and it was great meeting so many people within our sector – some for the first time.

Mitchell was a recess appointment, and immediately took office. However, he could serve only until Congress reconvened. Eisenhower nominated him for Labor Secretary on January 11, 1954, and the Senate confirmed him via voice vote on January 19. See: Christianson, p. 398.

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A spokesman for Red Tractor said: “It is with regret that we can confirm that Guy Smith has stepped down from his role as crops and sugar beet sector chair and the Assured Food Standards (AFS) Board, with immediate effect. In 1949, the NLRB in Conway's Express [156] held that the Taft-Hartley Act did not prohibit voluntary "hot cargo" agreements. [157] [158] The Farmer board reversed this ruling in McAllister Transfer Co. [7] :113 [159] Farmer provided the critical vote in the case. He argued that although existing "hot cargo" clauses were valid, an employer could repudiate them at any time and not commit a breach of contract or a ULP. [160] Although Farmer agreed with Beeson and Rodgers that the employer in McAllister Transfer had not committed a ULP in violating the voluntary "hot cargo" clause, he voiced the concern that the NLRB was becoming too activist by banning all such clauses. [7] :113 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 He explained how he had recently hosted a visit from Charlie Burrell, owner of the Knepp Estate that is successfully creating a rewilding project on the once intensively farmed 3,500 acre estate just south of Horsham, West Sussex.