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The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes. Central to the act was a ban on company unions. [1]
The National Labor Relations Act, generally known as the Wagner Act, was passed in 1935 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Second New Deal". Among other things, the act provided that a company could lawfully agree to be any of the following: A closed shop, in which employees must be members of the union as a condition of employment ...
The history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) can be traced to enactment of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933. Section 7(a) of the act protected collective bargaining rights for unions, [6] but was difficult to enforce.
Passed the Senate on May 13, 1947 (68-24, in lieu of S. 1126) ... The Taft–Hartley Act amended the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), ...
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 U.S. 1 (1937) declaring the NLRA 1935 to be constitutional Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization , 307 U.S. 496 (1939) held to be a violation of the First Amendment for the NJ mayor to shut down trade union CIO meetings because he thought they were "communist"
5. That's Fair Pay. Workplace "pay secrecy" policies are supposed to be illegal under the National Labor Relations Act. But half of workers say they're forbidden from talking about pay at work, up ...
Many of the legal doctrines established by the National Labor Board deeply influenced American labor relations. The Board's exclusive representation doctrine was "a major landmark in American labor history". [22] The doctrine was later enacted into law as part of the NLRA, and the NLRB continues to apply it today.
Private sector unions are regulated by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), passed in 1935 and amended since then. The law is overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency. Public sector unions are regulated partly by federal and partly by state laws.