Federal Emergency Relief Act/Administration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Relief_Administration
http://content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/essay.html
- President Herbert Hoover created in 1932.
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the name given by the Roosevelt Administration to a program similar to unemployment-relief efforts of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) set up by Herbert Hoover and the U.S. Congress in 1932
- FERA provided work for over 20 million people and developed facilities on public lands across the country.
- The FERA is not around today still. When Congress passed the Social Security Act of 1935, the work of FERA was taken over by the Social Security Board. The Federal Emergency Relief Act, passed at the outset of the New Deal by Congress on May 12, 1933
- Initially $500 million was made available for the FERA to distribute to the states as grants rather than loans.
- FERA was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Basically gave jobs to unskilled people, made jobs.
- FERA's main goal was alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government.
- FERA operated a wide variety of work relief projects, including construction, projects for professionals (e.g., writers, artists, actors, and musicians), and production of consumer goods.
- On May 22, 1933, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was official.
- The chief architect of this program was Harry Hopkins, the former president and executive director of the New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration and a man who had, by 1933, 20 years of experience in social work and welfare administration.
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1612.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act
http://www.stfrancis.edu/content/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/btopics/works/wagner.htm
- The Wagner Act is still around today.
- The NLRB is charged with several responsibilities:
It endeavors to preclude or remedy inequitable labor practices committed by either employees or unions. It can issue "cease and desist" orders against unethical practices, including pressuring employees, bias against union members, and refusal to meet at the bargaining table with employees.
When requested, it conducts elections to determine the employee representatives for collective bargaining.
The NLRB also can request that the federal courts sanction board rulings.
- The National Labor Relations Act of the Wagner Act of 1935 was created by Congress to protect workers' right to unionization.
- Designed to help factory workers.
- The Wagner Act makes it illegal for employers and labor unions to interfere with these rights and establishes the NLRB to hear cases involving unfair labor practices (Anderson, 1979).
-It is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands.
- after its sponsor, Senator Robert F. Wagner
- The Act does not apply to workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees, domestic employees, supervisors, federal, state or local government workers, independent contractors and some close relatives of individual employers.
- The National Labor Relations Act is enforced by the National Labor Relations Board and the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
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