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The Norris–La Guardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) is a 1932 United States federal law relating to United States labor law. [1] It banned yellow-dog contracts , barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers ...
Even though they were forbidden in the private sector by the Norris–LaGuardia Act in 1932, yellow dog contracts were allowed in public sector, including many government jobs, such as teachers, until the 1960s, beginning with precedent established in 1915 with Frederick v. Owens. [8]
Norris-LaGuardia Act sect. 13a Sanitary Grocery Co. , 303 U.S. 552 (1938), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which affects US labor law , safeguarding a right to boycott and in the struggle by African Americans against discriminatory hiring practices.
His major legislation was the Norris–La Guardia Act, cosponsored with Nebraska senator George Norris in 1932. It circumvented Supreme Court limitations on the activities of labor unions, especially as those limitations were imposed between the enactment of the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914 and the end of the 1920s.
With the dramatic transformation of opinion brought about by the Great Depression, Congress included in the NorrisāLaGuardia Act (1932) provisions to exempt organized labor from antitrust injunctions, and the Supreme Court legitimated this fundamental New Deal legislation. [2]
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In 1932, along with Fiorello H. La Guardia (R-New York), a Representative from New York City, Norris secured passage of the Norris–La Guardia Act. It prohibited the practice of employers' requiring prospective employees to commit to not joining a labor union as a condition of employment (the so-called yellow-dog contract ) and greatly limited ...
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