The National Labor Relations Act: The Wagner Act Of 1935

The National Labor Relations Act is more commonly referred to as the Wagner Act of 1935. This act was enacted in order to protect workers from having industries interfere within their unions. The Wagner Act also prohibited employers from interfering and reacting to labor practices within the private sector. This included labor unions, striking, and collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act was created in response to the unconstitutionality of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 along with the increasing civil conflict that was occurring from workers going on strike. The Wagner Act was named after Robert Wagner, a senator of New York, who would go on to introduce the Wagner Act. The act was later signed into law by the 32nd President of the United State, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The primary focus of passing the Wagner Act was to guarantee workers the right to join, form, and assist labor organizations, to self-organization, and to

All five of these provisions were geared to increase the rights of workers. The first provision was prohibiting management from interfering, restraining, or coercing employees’ rights of protection and mutual aid, freedom of association, collective bargaining for wages, self-organization, to join, form, or assist in labor organizations, engaging in concerted activities regardless of being in a union or not. The second provision is to prohibit employers from interfering or dominating with the administration of a labor organization. The third provision stopped the discrimination against employees who chose to encourage and discourage any acts of support for a labor organization. The fourth provision restricted the discrimination against any employees who have filed charges or testified. The last provision was refusing to collectively bargain with the representatives of any employer’s