Norris-La Guardia Act

Norris-La Guardia Act

The Norris-La Guardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) of 1932 was a United States federal law that made "yellow-dog contracts", or those in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment that he would not join a labor union, unenforceable in federal court; the common title followed from the names of the sponsors of the legislation: Republican Senator George Norris of Nebraska and Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York. The act established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer interferences and also withdrew from the federal courts jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent s.

Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in "New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.", in which, in an opinion authored by Justice Owen Roberts, the Court held that the act meant to prohibit employers from proscribing the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the "terms and conditions of employment" by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.

External links

* [http://www.boilermakers.org/History/NorrisLa.pdf Norris-LaGuardia Act from The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers] (PDF)
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=303&invol=552 New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.]


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