Benjamin Aaron | The Nation

This article focuses on Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. In common parlance, however, it is known as the Labor Reform Act. After months of wrangling, the U.S. Congress has enacted the new law which affects to a considerable, though as yet unknown, extent the internal affairs of unions, the activities of employers, union representatives and consultants, and the general conduct of labor-management relations. For organized labor, the new law marks another bitter defeat and furnishes further proof that when it comes to legislative package-handling, union leaders are still apprentices.