CR : Trade unions ACTS

Sherman Antitrust act

• 1890

• Corporations could sack workers and cut wages without federal intervention

Norris de la Guardia

• 1932

• Banned yellow-dog contracts

Lochner V New York

• 1905

• SC enforced injunctions against TU workers preventing them from striking

National war labour Board

• 1918

• Set up by President Wilson

• TU were federally recognised

• Safeguarded collective bargaining

• Ensured maximum working hours

• Growing awareness of TU rights

National Industry recover act (NIRA)

• 1933

• New deal (Roosevelt)

• Increased wages + decreased hours

• Did not cover all workers - unskilled

• Wages discrimination for AA + women + immigrants

Fair employment practices commission

• 1941

• relatively ineffective

• to address the issue of racial discrimination throughout World War II

Wagner Act (national labour relations act)

• 1935

• Regulating + decreasing labour disputes to limited strikes

• Protected right of labour and trade unions

• Roosevelt was cautious f giving unions too much power

• Led to National labour relation board + fair labour standards act

• Tu member ship rose from 3.7m to 9m between 1933-37

• Declared unconstitutional by SC in 1937

National labour relations board

• 1935

• Preventing companies from black listing trade unions

Fair labour standards act

• 1938

• Increased minimum wage to $25 per week

• Established the right to join tu

• Banned child labour

National war labour board (NWLB)

• 1941

• Adjudicate labour disputes

• Increase wages

• Favourable to tu + Lr

• However… now the president was capable of seizing any plant that was under threat of strike

Taft-Hartley act (labour management relations act)

• 1947

• Passed by republicans

• Restraining powers

• Purging communist unions

• Weakened the CIO, caused internal divisions

Equal pay act

• 1963

• Kennedy

• sought to make wages equal + prevent discrimination

Civil rights act

• 1964

• Johnson

• preventing discrimination in the workplace

Economic opportunity act

• 1964

• Johnson

• gave vocational skills to young people

Age discrimination employment act

• 1964

• Johnson

• prevented unfair dismal of those of an unwanted age

Occupational Safety and Health Act

• 1970

• established heath + safety regulations in the work palce