1. Decline Of Unions
... until the Great Depression. In these years, the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act and the Wagner Act were passed, which gave them protection. The intent of these laws was to help unions to organize, and this in itself was successful. There was one problem that unions faced in the 1930's, however. The CIO, (Committee for Industrial Organization) broke ties from its ... , the year of the AFL-CIO merger" (Denholm, 1999). The percentage of American workers that had membership in the late 1950's was about 33 percent (Clement 2001). II. Review of Literature Over the last forty years, the ro...
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