Compare and contrast the four congressional acts that provide legal guidelines for collective bargaining in the private sector: the Norris-La Guardia Act, the Wagner Act, the Taft- Hartley Act, and the Landrum-Griffin Act.

Title Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date The private sector collective bargaining has been reformed greatly by four main Congressional Acts. Such laws have created legal guidelines of labor negotiating rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees (Hafiz, 2020; Rebore, 2001; Thomson, 2022). This paper will compare these acts, focusing on their historical setting, main provisions, and consequences for industrial relations in the private sector. The Norris-La Guardia Act was passed after it was perceived that the employers had an upper hand during labor disputes particularly during the Great Depression. The Act was intended to strengthen the position of employees in collective bargaining and other concerted activities by not allowing the employers or the judiciary to interfere. It limited the use of injunctions by federal courts in the midst of labor disputes. Strikes were often suppressed by the courts using injunctions. The purpose of the Act is to limit the use of injunctions, thereby achieving the goal of creating a level playing field between employers and employees, in which workers can better organize and negotiate (Hafiz, 2020; Rebore, 2001; Thomson, 2022). The Wagner Act was an important piece of legislation that essentially redefined union-employer relationships in the USA. It is also referred to as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The Act acknowledged and was aimed at the expression of employee’s powers to organize and bargain collectively through their own chosen representatives. It was prohibited any imbalance actions from the employer's side, which included interference with employees' right to organize, discrimination against union members or union activists. Also, the Wagner Act was responsible for setting up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that was authorized to supervise and justly implement all the provisions of the act including making employee voting to select the union bargaining representatives and investigating the unfair labor practices (Hafiz, 2020; Rebore, 2001; Thomson, 2022). The Taft-Hartley Act, legally known as the Labor Management Relations Act, was enacted with aims to cope with the crisis of labor unions’ expanding power and the labor-related turmoil that emerged after World War II. Through the Act, the Wagner Act received relevant changes. Its objective was to deal with what many believed to be ...