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TU New Deal

Key facts for the New Deal Trade Union Civil Rights. A level OCR history

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National Industrial Recovery Act: Provisions Established codes to encourage companies to improve wages, hours and union rights. Also encourage the legal right to unions and collective bargaining. The codes were not enforced, and many companies ignored them.
National Recovery Administration Drew up codes along with the companies for wages, hours and trade unionist rights.
Wagner Act: Provisions Gave workers the right to join unions and elect representatives to collectively bargain. Declared constitutional by the supreme court.
Minimum Wage Established in 1938 under the Fair Labour Standards Act. Did not extend to agricultural workers.
National Labour Relations Board Established to bargain on behalf of workers.
Recognition of unions General Motors recognised the United Auto Workers and US Steel recognised the Steel Workers Organising Committee in 1937.
Growth in union membership Grew from 3.7 million in 1933 to 9 million in 1938
AFL-CIO split The Congress of Industrial Organisations split from the AFL in 1937, encouraged blue-collar and ethnic minority unions to join it. This led to an overall increase in union membership, although divided the labour movement.
Henry Ford Head of the Ford Motor Company. Did not recognise the NIRA or Wagner Act, and did not recognise unions.
National Industrial Recovery Act: Supreme Court The Supreme Court declared the NIRA unconstitutional in 1935.
Unskilled workers in the New Deal Those at the lower end of they pay range did not particularly benefit from New Deal improvements, particularly those in agricultural or domestic work.
Women in the New Deal Did not make pay gains - Equal Pay was not upheld in the NIRA or FLSA.
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