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NLRB affirmative action power

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From 306 U.S. 240 - National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · 1939Most cited · 915 citing opinions

the power to command affirmative action is remedial, not punitive, and is to be exercised in aid of the Board's authority to restrain violations and as a means of removing or avoiding the consequences of violation where those consequences are of a kind to thwart the purposes of the Act.