Wisconsin Employment Relations Board v. Lucas

While the National Labor Relations Act has long empowered the National Labor Relations Board “to prevent any person from engaging in any unfair labor practice . . . affecting commerce,” the National Board has never exercised the full measure of its jurisdiction over labor disputes primarily local in character. In 1950 the board published standards, largely in terms of yearly dollar amounts of interstate inflow and outflow, which would normally determine whether or not it would take jurisdiction of a particular employer. These standards were revised in 1954, when the dollar amount of yearly…