What did the Wagner Act do during the Great Depression?
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (also known as the Wagner Act) required businesses to bargain in good faith with any union supported by the majority of their employees.
Who was affected by the Wagner Act?
Signed in July 1935, the Wagner Act was part of the Second New Deal of 1935-36, in which FDR sought to gain the political support of the working class. The Wagner Act supported labor and unions in many ways, and dramatically altered the relationship between the federal government and workers’ organizations.
What was the purpose of the Taft Hartley Act?
The Taft-Hartley Act is a 1947 U.S. federal law that extended and modified the 1935 Wagner Act. It prohibits certain union practices and requires disclosure of certain financial and political activities by unions.
Can Labor Relations fire you?
Supervisors and managers cannot spy on you (or make it appear that they are doing so), coercively question you, threaten you or bribe you regarding your union activity or the union activities of your co-workers. You can’t be fired, disciplined, demoted, or penalized in any way for engaging in these activities.
How do I appeal an NLRB decision?
Any or all parties can appeal by filing exceptions. In considering an appeal, the Board reviews the case record, including all all documents produced by the regional investigation.
Are administrative law decisions binding?
An administrative law judge’s decision is not binding legal precedent in other cases unless it has been adopted by the Board on review of exceptions; these judges function much like trial court judges hearing a case without a jury.
Are administrative decisions precedential?
the role of the court is often performed by an independent Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) or agency commissioner(s). agencies are not strictly bound by prior decisions but the decisions have precedential value so attorneys who practice before an agency can use the decisions as an important primary source of the law.