Until passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, workers could express themselves through nonunion employee representation [NER]. Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice, and Policy His argument is that prewar labour law, including the Wagner Act, did not in fact consolidate this system or even put unionism itself on a secure footing.
1 Secondhand smoke causes approximately 7,330 deaths from lung cancer and 33,950 deaths from heart disease each year. 2  1. 3  Between 1964 and 2014, 2.5 million people died from exposure to secondhand smoke, according to a report from the U.S. Surgeon General.
Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke (2). The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmokerâs chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent (4).