Youâd be hard-pressed not to find a pair of co-workers whoâve spent years working in close proximity who donât kinda/sorta secretly hate each other. This oneâs lazy, that oneâs bossy, her cubicle is a mess, heâs always taking vape breaks â weâve all been there.
Congress enacted the NLRA on July 5, 1935. It was welcomed at the time and for numerous years later as the Magna Carta of American labor. Before the law, employers had liberty to spy upon, question, punish, blacklist, and fire union members. In the 1930s workers began to organize in large numbers.
In 1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act, which has served as the framework for federal regulation of private-sector labor-management relations ever since. The first attempt at a national labor law came with the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) in 1933.NIRA was intended as a general plan to promote economic recovery, 19 and as part of the package it conferred upon employees statutory rights to organize labor unions and bargain collectively.2. But later that same year, the unions' dreams of a national labor law were realized. Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which has served as the framework for federal regulation of private-sector labor-management relations ever since.