National Labor Relations Act

noun

1. an act of Congress (1935) that forbade any interference by employers with the formation and operation of labor unions.

Example Sentences

Since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the purpose of federal labor law has been to require employers to bargain in good faith with duly certified unions.

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“Since the early 1980s, Congress has attempted to politicize the board to relitigate the assumptions about labor-management relations that got the National Labor Relations Act enacted in 1935. That drum has just gotten louder and louder.”

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His appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the principal administrative agency handling labor-management conflict, interpreted the 90-year old National Labor Relations Act so as to enhance the rights of workers to organize.

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Together they wish to take a wrecking ball to labor law, asserting that the 90-year-old National Labor Relations Act and the independent agency it established are unconstitutional.

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By virtue of the National Labor Relations Act’s system of five-year staggered appointments to the NLRB, presidents are able to influence the board’s direction during their four-year terms, but they cannot dominate it or dictate the outcome of a particular case that is before the labor board.

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