Question

Write a paper desrcribing the provisions of the following major labor law as well as their impact on organizations and the union-management relationship they have the Norris-Laguardia Act

Wagner Act

Answer 1

Norris-La Guardia Act (Anti-Injunction Bill)

            This is act was passed in1932 and the important purpose of this act to break anti-labor

orders or injunctions. The term ‘injunctions’ are generally used by the courts that forbidding employees from strike and picket.

According to Section 2and 4(1932), “the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty. . . ." This Federal Court does not enjoin any workers from becoming or remaining the membership of a labor union organization and helping an individual involved in a court case or any labor dispute. As Section 2, it clearly says that the workers should be able to form cooperatively.

Wagner Act (NLRA)

            Wagner Act of 1935 or NLRA - National Labor Relations Act which establishes legal rights especially to agricultural and domestic workers to join labor unions and for bargaining collectively with the employers. It prevents or corrects unfair labor practices by employers and unions, also this act controls from employers engaging any discriminating activities in the workplace setting up an organizational union against workers. The main resolution of this law is to encourage economic steadiness and fairness through the measures of cooperative bargaining (Hogler, 2007). Wagner Act mainly concentrates only for self-organization, join, and help labor unions, and bargain collectively through union councils. Wagner Act later amended by the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 prevents secondary boycotts and only very limited power for picket and strikes.