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National Labor Relations Act  

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  • The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is the basic federal law that governs unionization and collective bargaining in the United States. When it was originally enacted in 1935, the NLRA was called the Wagner Act, based on the name of its main sponsor, Senator Robert Wagner of New York. [Source: Encyclopedia of Career Development; National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)]

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