•Procedural
•Before
1960s little government regulation
•Still
no regulation of bargaining units or representation rights or which issues subject to
bargaining
•1959
‑ agreements given legal status as minimum standards covering all employees
•Growing
role for legislation since late 1960s
–Workers
Statute ‑ 1970 ‑ single most significant statute
–Every
employee 10 paid hours year for union business
–These
rights available only to representative unions