featherbedding (§ 8(b)(6))

The Act now limits its condemnation to instances where a labor organization or its agents exact pay from an employer in return for services not performed or not to be performed. Thus, where work is done by an employee, with the employer's consent, a labor organization's demand that the employee be compensated for time spent in doing the disputed work does not become an unfair labor practice.

Defined by the Supreme Court in - American Newspaper Publishers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board, 345 U.S. 100 (1953).