Youâd be hard-pressed not to find a pair of co-workers whoâve spent years working in close proximity who donât kinda/sorta secretly hate each other. This oneâs lazy, that oneâs bossy, her cubicle is a mess, heâs always taking vape breaks â weâve all been there.
Congress enacted the NLRA on July 5, 1935. It was welcomed at the time and for numerous years later as the Magna Carta of American labor. Before the law, employers had liberty to spy upon, question, punish, blacklist, and fire union members. In the 1930s workers began to organize in large numbers.
This cartoon by Bill Maudlin ran in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 12, 1964, two days after the House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After 75 days of Southern filibuster and hundreds of proposed amendments, the Senate approved the bill on June 19, 1964.fter passage in the House Judiciary Committee, the Civil Rights Act languished in the House Rules Committee under Chairman Howard W. Smith of Virginia. Judiciary Chairman Emanuel Celler of New York attempted to use a discharge petition to bypass the Rules Committee and bring the measure directly to the House Floor.