unfair labor practice
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 336 U.S. 301 - Algoma Plywood & Veneer Co. v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board · 1949Most cited · 338 citing opinions
The term 'unfair labor practice' is not a term of art having an independent significance which transcends its statutory definition. The States are free (apart from pre-emption by Congress) to characterize any wrong of any kind by an employer to an employee, whether statutorily created or known to the common law, as an 'unfair labor practice.
How often courts cite the case defining “unfair labor practice”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unfair labor practice” — 333 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.