James A. Gross
Professor Gross teaches Labor Law, Labor Arbitration, and a course entitled Values, Rights and Justice in Economics, Law, and Industrial Relations. He received his B.S. from LaSalle College, M.A. from Temple University, and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin.
Rights Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes Under the National Labor Relations Act, just published by Cornell University Press, is the fourth volume in his study of the NLRA and the NLRB. This most recent volume applies internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment and argues that the NLRA was and remains at its core a workers' rights statute. It also shows how value clashes and choices between those who interpret the NLRA as a workers' rights statute and those who contend that the NLRA seeks only a "balance" between the economic interests of labor and management have been major influences in the evolution of the NLRB and the law. Rights Not Interests contends, contrary to many who would write its obituary, that the NLRA is not dead. Instead the book concludes with a call for visionary thinking including the U.S. Constitution as a source of workers' rights.