1. Unions in the 1930’s

2. FDR Protects Workers Rights higher wages = more spending
1933 NIRA – declared unconstitutional
Shortened work hours
Right to form unions
Bargain collectively
Wages & hours
1935 Wagner Act/National Labor Relations Act
Guaranteed workers the right to:
Organize unions
Collectively bargain
National Labor Relations Board
Organized elections
Provided for “Binding Arbitration”
Mediator rules on decisive issues
Could file “Unfair Labor Practice”

3. Congress of Industrial Organizations - CIO
Organized unions in all industries
Concentrated on two larges industries without unions
Auto & Steel
New Tactic – “Sit-down Strike”
Occupied factory
No work
Prevented “scabs” (replacement workers)
UAW – United Auto Workers – 1937
Union Membership tripled
3 million in 1933
9 million in 1939