The Waganer Act. The act legalized the right to strike, barred employers for firing worker for their union activities, and required them to negotiate in good faith with a union once it had been certified as a bargaining agent by the National Labor Relations Board.
The Social Security Act placed a tax of 2 percent on labor at a time when unemployment in the United States exceeded 15 percent. Raising the cost of labor at a time when millions of people were out of work was not a policy likely to get more people back to work.
