The denial by some employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by some employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency, safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of commerce; (b) occurring in the current of commerce; (c) materially affecting, restraining, or controlling the flow of raw materials or manufactured or processed goods from or into the channels of commerce, or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (d) causing diminution of employment and wages in such volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the market for goods flowing from or into the channels of commerce.
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The denial by some employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by some employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency, safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of commerce; (b) occurring in the current of commerce; (c) materially affecting, restraining, or controlling the flow of raw materials or manufactured or processed goods from or into the channels of commerce, or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (d) causing diminution of employment and wages in such volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the market for goods flowing from or into the channels of commerce.
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§ 151. Findings and declaration of policy
The denial by some employers of the right of
employees to organize and the refusal by some
employers to accept the procedure of collective
bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of in-
dustrial strife or unrest, which have the intent
or the necessary effect of burdening or obstruct-
ing commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency,
safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of
commerce; (b) occurring in the current of com-
merce; (c) materially affecting, restraining, or
controlling the flow of raw materials or manu-
factured or processed goods from or into the
channels of commerce, or the prices of such ma-
terials or goods in commerce; or (d) causing
diminution of employment and wages in such
volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the
market for goods flowing from or into the chan-
nels of commerce.
The inequality of bargaining power between
employees who do not possess full freedom of as-
sociation or actual liberty of contract, and em-
ployers who are organized in the corporate or
other forms of ownership association substan-
tially burdens and affects the flow of commerce,
and tends to aggravate recurrent business de-
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pressions, by depressing wage rates and the pur-
chasing power of wage earners in industry and
by preventing the stabilization of competitive
wage rates and working conditions within and
between industries.
Experience has proved that protection by law
of the right of employees to organize and bar-
gain collectively safeguards commerce from in-
jury, impairment, or interruption, and promotes
the flow of commerce by removing certain rec-
ognized sources of industrial strife and unrest,
by encouraging practices fundamental to the
friendly adjustment