Unionization Procedures
Worker Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), as amended, gives private sector workers the right to join or form a labor union and to bargain collectively over wages, hours, and other conditions of employment. The Act begins by stating that the purpose of the law is to improve the bargaining power of workers: The inequality of bargaining power between employees … and employers … substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners … and by preventing the stabilization of competitive wage…
