This is a condensed version of an article published in the March 2022 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Despite increasing public support for unions, nationwide union membership is at its lowest point since 1936, one year after the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or “Wagner Act”). Since then, anti-worker legislation, regulatory action, and judicial decisions gave primacy to the property, financial, and political interests of employers and tilted the playing field against working people. Employers took advantage of the weakened law to wage fierce anti-union campaigns, causing Human Rights Watch to declare “a culture of near-impunity has taken shape in much of U.S. labor law and practice.”
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