The 15th Edition makes a number of significant changes in its predecessor edition, published in 2006. In the past five years, the law relating to employers, employees and unions has evolved, in part because of developments in the workplace that reflect changes in the U.S. economy, and in part because of the dramatic departures from precedent on the part of the National Labor Relations Board as appointed by President George W. Bush. The Obama-appointed NLRB will, by the publication date of the 15th edition, have addressed many of these departures and will have, in turn, reshaped the law within its administrative powers.

A set of PowerPoint Slides For Class Discussion to accompany Labor Law, Cases and Materials, 15th Edition, prepared by Laura J. Cooper (The J. Stewart and Mario Thomas McClendon Professor in Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution, University of Minnesota), is now available in CD format on a complimentary basis to professors who have adopted the casebook. This collection of 600 slides offers many opportunities to enhance discussion of cases and problems in the casebook. Slides include such materials as charts and diagrams of facts from the cases, outlines to introduce new topics, charts synthesizing and contrasting legal doctrines, explanatory timelines, and a variety of other supplementary information including NLRB statistical information and highlights of relevant law review articles. Additional slides replicate statutory text and problems in the book to help focus student attention. The slides also offer additional hypotheticals for discussion.

This book begins with an introduction to labor law, the Federal Labor Act, and the National Labor Relations Board. Coverage expands to include securing representative status, restraint and coercion of employee rights to organize, and the legality of concerted activity. Examines the balance of economic weapons, the duty to bargain in good faith, and the enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. Also reviews the union and employee relationship, regulatory conflict, and accommodation.

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