At the grassroots level, however, many black workers found that labor unions were using their newfound powers under the Railway Labor Act as amended in 1934 and the
Wagner Act of 1935 to exclude them.
Further, the two nations generally share a common labor law blueprint -- in the US, it is the
Wagner Act of 1935, the general principles of which were also adopted in most Canadian jurisdictions.
As for big labor, the
Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be quite destructive.
The
Wagner Act of 1935, which created the NLRB, ignored the interests of civil rights groups and instead ensured the rights of white workers in segregated blue-collar unions.
The
Wagner Act of 1935, which guaranteed unions the fight to organize and bargain collectively, recognized that workers in mass-production industries were subject to autocratic rule and worthy of government protection.
The
Wagner Act of 1935 gave legal protection to workers who try to form unions, but at a great cost.
The
Wagner Act of 1935 regulates labor relations in the private sector and created the National Labor Relations Act to administer the Act.
The promotion of labor unions by New Deal laws (especially the
Wagner Act of 1935) unquestionably hastened the demise of much of American manufacturing, as capital fled the high labor costs that unions encouraged.
He implemented progressive labor policies at his automobile plants, yet violated labor-friendly legislation like the
Wagner Act of 1935 and treated unions with open contempt.
But today the
Wagner Act of 1935, which guaranteed this right, might just as well not exist.
Public employees, however, failed to share in the rights of the rest of the union movement when the labor movement was formally legitimized in the
Wagner Act of 1935 (Nelson, 1990).
The workers are heartened by the election of Roosevelt in 1932 and especially by the
Wagner Act of 1935. They are equally encouraged by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), formed in 1935 in order to organize workers on an industry-wide basis.