Wagner Act

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/1/2021
  

  FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days

  by Jordan Weissmann

  The first 100 days of the New Deal could be described as disaster response. The second 100 days, according to historians William Leuchtenberg, Erich Rauchway and David Kennedy, were when the administration took steps that transformed labor relations and birthed a modern social welfare state. 

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• 3/14/2021
  

  Biden Supports Amazon Workers' Right to Form a Union. Is this a Turn Back to Pro-Worker Policy?

  by Martin Halpern

  The union election of Amazon workers in Alabama is a signal of momentum for renewing the power of workers, but grassroots energy needs support from the Biden White House (and probably the end of the Senate filibuster) to secure a more equitable society. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/22/2020
  

  Trump Claims He’s Pro-Worker. But His Labor Board Is Trying to Destroy Worker Organizing.

  by Paul Prescod

  Donald Trump tries to portray himself as pro-worker. Nowhere is this absurdity better exposed than in the decisions of his National Labor Relations Board, which have over and over again favored bosses rather than workers.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/4/19
  

  The Wagner Act and Why It's A Liberal President Is Not Sufficient To Create Democratic Change

  by Jamelle Bouie

  And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.