Amazon.com description: Product Description: The ultimate desktop reference for labor and employment law practitioners. Written by distinguished members of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law representing management, labor, and neutrals, The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act, Fifth Edition provides comprehensive, scholarly coverage that practitioners have relied on for more than 30 years. The Fifth Edition is the essential research tool for labor and employment law practitioners. In two volumes, kept current with annual cumulative supplements, this classic treatise provides an authoritative, balanced perspective on the legal rights and duties of employees, employers, and unions; procedures under the National Labor Relations Act; and remedies under the NLRA. For the specialist, it is a quick means of accessing lead cases; for the generalist, it provides an excellent summary of the law and how that law developed. All labor law practitioners will benefit from the history of the development of every major labor law doctrine that this distinctive reference work provides from contract bar to deferral to arbitration, and all that lies in between, including prohibited secondary activity. The Fifth Edition includes a broad range of topics critical to your labor law interests, including: discussion of a number of unfair labor practices and representation case issues arising from neutrality agreements that the Board is currently considering discussion of the economic weapons available to unions and employers preemption updates on litigation involving conflicts between the NLRA and state laws the Duty to Bargain information cases updates on the relationship between the NLRA and bankruptcy, immigration, and other federal statutes.