ILRLR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: National Industrial Recovery Act, National Labor Board, Public Works Administration
27 Jun 2016
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Labor and capital during the new deal part ii: Nira - national industrial recovery act (1933) Prohibited businesses from firing employees for joining outside union. Did not require businesses to recognize demands of outside unions. Companies could not forbid workers from joining outside unions. Reading formula: the state determined the real union . Amendments to emergency relief and construction act of 1932. Suspend antitrust legislation and accept big business. Pay fair wage, limit work hours, abolish child labor. Oversee thousands of industry codes created in cooperation with business leaders. Biggest industries hesitated to comply - and only if price controls. All or nothing incentives and no penalties for evasion. Blue eagle campaign (attempt to alert consumers of who was an nra member) ultimately failed. Violates separation of powers: unconstitutional for the president to enforce code (make law) that regulate the poultry industry - that was the job of congress.
