1935 known as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Wagner Act). This law, like the previous ones, encourages and protects labor’s rights. When this act was passed it added ‘meat’ to the Norris-LaGuardia Act. It did this by: (1) banning certain unfair labor practices, (2) providing for secret-ballot elections and majority rule for determining whether a firm’s employees were to unionize; and (3) creating the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for enforcing these two provisions.The Taft-Hartley Act (Labor –Management Relations Act) was passed in 1947. This act prohibited union unfair labor practices and lists the rights of employees as union members and rights of employers. The First Amendment permits both employers and employees to exercise free speech by electioneering during union organization.As the study guide states, statute and case law have defined a series of unfair practices that employers and unions may not engage in during electioneering for a union certification election. Some unfair employer labor practices include 1) interference with union organizing efforts, 2) interference with employees’ efforts for mutual aid, 3) tion of a labor organization, 4) support for a labor organization, 5) discrimination on the basis of participation in union activities, 6) discrimination due to employees’ exercise of legal rights, and 7) refusing to bargain or refusing to bargain in good faith. Some unfair union labor practices include 1) restraint or coercion of employees or union members, 2) refusing to bargain or refusing to bargain in good faith, 3) strike-related conduct that may be illegal, 4) excessive dues, 5) featherbedding, and 6) coercion of employees to recognize a noncertified union.The Excelsior rule requires the union be given an employee list at least seven days before to an election if the union cannot reach all of the other employees without great expense. However, in th...
