The Fourteenth Edition builds on the prior edition's expansion of materials in labor history and industrial relations, while outlining today's regulatory developments against the background of a changing economic situation. Particular attention is paid to the recent significant Court of Appeals decisions. Attention is given to important developments and changing caselaw in the NLRB which is now dominated by appointees of the Bush Administration.
labor law is conceptually cool, but hard to get as a practitioner, as the Wagner Act has been rolled back systematically by a number of rightwing legal offensives.
this text is a decent introduction (course I had was taught by management's counsel, who referred to those of us sympathetic to the union perspective as 'bolshevists,' which may have been true in my case, but FFS.)