Labor Law: Bargaining Lockout Held Lawful Absent Interference With Protected Rights or a Proscribed Purpose

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Abstract

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently extended the limits within which an employer might lock out his employees. While the Supreme Court has allowed a lockout initiated after an impasse in negotiations between the employer and the union, the Sixth Circuit held that a lockout prior to an impasse for the purpose of supporting the employer's bargaining position was not an unfair labor practice.

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Labor Law: Bargaining Lockout Held Lawful Absent Interference With Protected Rights or a Proscribed Purpose, 1966 Duke Law Journal 261-271 (1966)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol15/iss1/13