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90 Years after Its Passage, the NLRA Is Under Siege
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 July 2, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | The Wagner Act — or, more formally, the National Labor Relations Act — was the product of Depression-era concern about the social and economic effects of industrial unrest manifest in citywide general strikes, factory takeovers, and many violent confrontations between workers trying to form unions and the police or private security forces defending the interests of anti-union employers. The architects of the Wagner Act were New Deal Democrats. They knew that a new national labor policy was needed to promote collective bargaining as a peaceful alternative to such unregulated labor-management conflict. [Now, 90] years after President Franklin Roosevelt signed the NLRA into law on July 5, 1935, this statutory encouragement of collective bargaining is under assault and showing its age. In These Times
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