[makomk]

It's not that odd. Section 7 is about the right to form unions and carry out collective bargaining: "Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3) [section 158(a)(3) of this title]."

It would require an awful lot of creative reinterpretation to decide that class action lawsuits are a form of collective bargaining and this section granted some kind of right to them, especially since they didn't exist at the time and wouldn't be invented for several decades.

[s73v3r_]

I think the opposite; I think it would take a lot to decide that class action lawsuits are not a concerted activity for the purpose of mutual aid or protection.