#TBT: Franklin D. Roosevelt Legalizes Collective Bargaining

 

     On July 6th, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, which gave workers the right to organize into unions and use collective bargaining and striking to secure improved working conditions and wages. It also created a National Labor Relations Board to handle complaints of  companies violating workers' rights.

     The act would later be amended in 1947 with the Taft-Hartley Act, passed in spite of President Truman's veto. This act legalized unfair labor practices and allowed states to pass right-to-work laws taking power away from unions and giving it to companies, also known as helping those who already have the means to help themselves. 

     The only way to restore the NLRA in full is to pass the PRO Act!!!