Norris Laguardia Essay

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The Norris-LaGuardia Act was implemented in 1932 in order to eradicate certain legal and judicial barriers against the actions of organized labor in the United States. The Rift between the trade unions and the employers are not unknown to the world, as this issue has been raising its head every now and then in the history of industrial and labor development. Many acts and legislations have been enacted throughout the past century to bring some kind of a balance between the relation of the unions and the employers of labor. Norris Laguardia Act of 1932 is one such act that was enacted work in favor of the organized labor. The adoption of this act, allowed Congress to liberate the organized labor from the most extreme controlling Federal court injunctions. This act was with respect to reserving the rights of the union to organize peaceful union activities. Before this act was passed, it was declared by a Federal judge that the activities of the union like strike, picketing or, boycott can be held equivalent to violation of law. Therefore, injunctions issued by the court were justified. These injunctions did not remain for a long time and ceased in short period, but even in this …show more content…

The Yellow dog contract that an employee was made to sign prevented the employee to be a part of any union or, any other labor organization. This contract provided the employers with tremendous power in making or, breaking an employee and his / her employment in the company. This contract was thus made unenforceable by this Act. The second declaration of The Norris Laguardia Relation Act prevented the Federal court of jurisdiction to issue injunctions against publicizing a labor dispute through speaking, patrolling or any type of assembling. The court also could not impede the efforts of the labor organizations to publicize facts in connection with labor

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