TU revision: congress/supreme court

Fair labour standards act

1938- minimum wage/ maximum hours/ stopped child labour under 16

equal pay act

1963

age discrimination in employment act

1967- protected workers from 40-65/ no more specific job advertisements for male/females

occupational safety and health act

1970- workplace safety conditions

lochner vs New york

1905- working hours was in state control

Wagner act declared constitutional

1937

sick chickens case

1935- NIRA declared unconstitutional

civil rights act

1964

equal employment opportunity commission

1965- tackled gender wage discrimination

Agricultural Adjustment Act

1933- raised stability (doubled farm cash income between 1933- 36), widespread displacement on sharecroppers

social security act

1935- est. pensions/unemployment insurance

Truman’s ‘fair deal’

1949- expanded minimum wage to 75 cents and hour

area redevelopment act

1961- job creation in poorer regions

manpower development and training act

1962- retraining programmes for unemployed

economic opportunity act

1964- anti-poverty programmes

sherman antitrust act

1890- called TUs ‘restraints of trade’

claytno antitrust act

1914- said that TUs were legal and not ‘restraints of trade’. could organise, and strike (court injunctions prevented this)

National war labour relations board

WW1/WW2- kept relations and forced employers to recognise the bargaining powers of TUs and listened to their disputes

National labour relations board

1935- made up of 5 men, they had power to reinstate unfairly dismissed workers, est by Wagner act. members appointed by president and approved by congress.

Norris LaGuardia Act

1932- banned anti-union contracts

Wagner act

1935- legalised collective bargaining, membership of unions triples 33-39, creation of NRLB, banned spies, permitted closed shop

NIRA

National Industrial Relations Act 1933- created PWA (public works administration)- allocated 3.3 bill for public project, suspended all antitrust laws, started codes of practice,

NRA

national recovery administration 1933- agreed codes of practice e.g production levels, hours, wages etc. by 1934- 557 codes agreed covering 22 mill workers

Taft- Hartley act

1947- banned closed shops/restricted union actions/ union leaders were required to make a sworn statement of non-communist allegiance (overruled Truman’s veto)

public law 330-84

1955- stopped strikes happening in federal jobs

loewe vs lawlar

1908- enforced that Tus were subject to Antitrust laws