Major Laws

Major Labor Laws

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This paper describes provisions of major labor laws and their impact on the organizations and union management relationship. The major that have been discussed are The Railway Labor Act, The Norris-La Guardia Act, The Wagner Act, The Taft-Hartley Act and The Landrum-Griffin Act. The Unions Labors in the U.S. have been long struggled for gaining the strength as well as recognition. Many business managers have been viewed the unions as threat. After all, the major aim of the unions has to pressure the employers for raising the wages as well as improve the working conditions.

Introduction

The labor unions have been existed even in early days of United States republic. Such early unions had been the local crafted unions, consisting of just some members, who had been worked in similar crafted or skilled occupations. A way unions have been negotiated employment contract has known as the collective bargaining. In the collective bargaining, unions represent their members in the negotiations than having every worker individually negotiate with employer. Before Civil War, the unions were local, small as well as poorly organized. They had big trouble while persuading the employers for negotiating with the union representatives. Besides, the employers mostly directly dealt with every employee.

Railway Labor Act

The RLA (Railway Labor Act) had been enacted in the year 1926 as joint work’s product of the rail labor as well as management. This had been amended in the year 1934 & 1966 and expanded for including the airlines in the year 1936.

Purpose of RLA (Railway Labor Act) has been to avoid any of the interruption for interstate the commerce after providing prompt dispositions of the disputes between the carriers as well as the employees & protects rights of the employees for organizing & bargaining collectively. The RLA (Railway...