The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 is named after Senator George William Norris from Nebraska and Congressman Fiorell H LaGuardia from New York City both republicans who recognized the need to change labor reform. The Act was passed in the middle of the Great Depression to stop legal and judicial barriers preventing workers to organize unions in the United States ("Norris-La Guardia Act | United States [1932] | Britannica.com," n.d.). Employers used to make the potential worker sign yellow-dog contracts that stated if they were to join a union they would be terminated from their job, this became illegal with the passing of the new legislation. Before the Act was passed the law and courts always sided with the employer issuing injunctions prohibiting workers from going on strike and picketing ("Norris-La Guardia Act | United States [1932] | Britannica.com," n.d.). …show more content…
Before the passing of the NLRA employers were allowed to spy, interrogate, discipline and even blacklist union members, a huge citywide strike happened in 1933 and lasted through 1934 ("National Labor Relations Act," n.d.). The strikes brought on violence between union workers and individuals trying to form unions and the police who only wanted to protect the anti-union employers ("National Labor Relations Act," n.d.). The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enforce and protect