It has been hailed as a great victory for conservatives. Yet the Kennedy- Landrum-Griffin (K-L-G) Law fails to remove existing shortcomings in labor relations or to alleviate even the more glaring defects in labor legislation. Moreover, it increases fundamental errors in existing governmental policy in labor relations, and can therefore be expected in the long run to make conditions worse even than they are now. I believe that the country has been taken for a ride.
Most people are referring to the new law as the Landrum-Griffin Law. But this is an error. The Landrum- Griffin bill passed by the House of Representatives differs in many important ways from the bill which emerged from the conference committee of the House and the Senate. The changes made in that conference, all for the worse, comprise, for the most part, the subject-matter of this article. And those changes, in the opinion of well-informed persons, were made at the suggestion and insistence primarily of Senator Kennedy and his legal advisers, principally Professor Archibald Cox of the Harvard Law School. Thus it seems proper to call it the Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Law.
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