In Douds, Judge Hand approved of and followed Attorney General Tom C. Clark's opinion that the Railway Labor Act invalidates a collective bargaining agreement that prevents an individual from negotiating with the carriers through his own union representative in settling grievances.
29 U.S.C. § 151 Cited 5,092 times 34 Legal Analyses
Finding that "protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce" and declaring a policy of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining"