THE LEGAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LABOR CONTRACTS UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT

The National Labor Relations Act was passed, as it declares in its first section, to encourage the practice and procedure of collective bargaining\u27\u27 and to give workers freedom to designate representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment ; and the last of the unfair labor practices named in section 8 is for an employer to refuse to bargain collectively. Bargaining and negotiating, the National Labor Relations Board has repeatedly declared, must be done in good faith. Discussion is not true negotiation or bargaining. For the employer to bargain in good faith he must intend to reach agreement; and be ready to have such agreement embodied in a writing signed by the parties. A signed contract is then the end-all of the process, so far as the National Labor Relations Act is concerned; for regarding the observance of contracts the National Labor Relations Board, to which the act entrusts the application of its standards, has no responsibility. It is the practice and procedure of collective bargaining that is the board\u27s concern. The formation of the contract is the culmination of collective bargaining. At that point the legislative process in labor relations is over, and the executive process of application and interpretation begins

The StarLight Space Interferometer

Two papers describe the StarLight space interferometer a Michelson interferometer that would be implemented by two spacecraft flying in formation. The StarLight formation flying interferometer project has been testing and demonstrating engineering concepts for a new generation of space interferometers that would be employed in a search for extrasolar planets and in astrophysical investigations. As described in the papers, the original StarLight concept called for three spacecraft, and the main innovation embodied is a modification that makes it possible to reduce complexity by eliminating the third spacecraft. The main features of the modification are (1) introduction of an optical delay line on one spacecraft and (2) controlling the flying formation such that the two spacecraft are located at two points along a specified parabola so as to define the required baseline of specified length (which could be varied up to 125 m) perpendicular to the axis of the parabola. One of the papers presents a detailed description of the optical layout and discusses computational modeling of the performance; the other paper presents an overview of the requirements for operation and design, the overall architecture, and subsystems

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Federal Reserve District, 12th ; Economic conditions - West (U.S.)