| Time | Activities |
| 1648 | Shoemakers and coopers form a guild in Boston to advocate for better pay, removal of price controls and good working conditions where they operated without a legal backing |
| 1794 | Formation of the Typographical Society and the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers for printers and shoemakers respectively (University of Hawaii, 2019). The move created unease in the labor industry, especially among employers as it threatened the amount of revenues earned |
| 1806 | Employers started seeking injunctions against labor unions by employing the common-law restraint of trade and the common-law conspiracy doctrines. According to the first doctrine, courts perceived advocacy for better wages as a move to restrain trade using their labor while in the second doctrine, regardless of the objective of means employed, their activities were criminal conspiracies. |
| 1914 | The enactment of the Clayton Act whose section 6 stated excluded labor unions from the antitrust laws against conspiracies (Lamaj, 2017). It aimed to protect consumers by encouraging competition mon companies which will force them to improve the quality of their products |
| 1921 | Supreme Court made a ruling against the secondary boycott by suspending key provisions of the Clayton Act |
| 1926 | Congress established the Railway Labor Act that required railroad company employers to bargain in good faith with the leaders of employee unions |
| 1932 | The Norris–La Guardia Act that permitted secondary boycott for workers |
| 1935 | Wagner Act that allowed workers involved in interstate commerce to unionize |
| 1946 | Failure to restrict union activities motivated its opponents to seek for an amendment to balance power with employers hence, leading to the enactment of the Labor-Management Relations Act in 1947 that highlighted the rights of employers (Wachter, 2014). Some of the unions started engaging in corruption and power abuse that caused the Congress to introduce the Landrum-Griffin Act that introduced controls on internal procedures of the unions. |
References
Lamaj, J. (2017). The Evolution ofAntitrust Law in USA. European Scientific Journal, ESJ , 13 (4).
It’s time to jumpstart your paper!
Delegate your assignment to our experts and they will do the rest.
University of Hawaiʻi. (2019). CLEAR Timeline of United States Labor History. Retrieved from https://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/home/Timeline-US.html
Wachter, M. L. (2014). The Striking Success of the National Labor Relations Act. Regulation , 37 , 20.
