Communication Breakdown: Reviving the Role of Discourse in the Regulation of Employee Collective Action

Abstract

The problems facing individuals who attempt to act together are considerable.Yet in perhaps no other area are these collective-action problems more acute than the workplace.This reality creates a serious issue for labor law, which guarantees employees the right to engage in collective action.Conditions in the modern workplace increasingly erect barriers to employees' ability to act together which threaten this right.Rather than knocking down these barriers, however, labor law over the last several decades has reinforced them.A key factor in this failure is the refusal of the courts and the National Labor Relations Board to recognize

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