On July 5, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) into law. Known as the Wagner Act, after its author, New York’s Sen. Robert Wagner, the NLRA’s passage ...

It’s been just shy of a century since the National Labor Relations Act was signed into law, guaranteeing workers nationwide the right to bargain collectively. A crucial component of that was ensuring ...

Last week A. F. of L.’s apple-headed William Green tooted a blast against the Smith Committee Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (TIME, March 18). He said they “strike in a destructive way ...

Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta.” The Wagner Act—or, more formally, the National Labor Relations Act—was ...