WAGNER CONNERY NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT

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WAGNER CONNERY NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT
JULY 1935

• The Act was introduced by Senator Robert F.
  Wagner as Roosevelt was reluctant to become
  involved in labour relations legislation,
  therefore the Act went throught Congresss without
  his support.
• The Wagner Act of 1935 legalised unions rights
  and established a National Labor Relations Board
  to oversee the laborers negotiations with their
  employers.
• It guaranteed workers the rights to collective
  bargaining and prevented employers from engaging
  in unfair labor practices.
• The NLRB replaced the National Labor Board, which
  the United States Supreme Court effectively
  disbanded when it ruled that the National
  Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional in
  1935. 

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