The National Labor Relations Act (also known as the Wagner Act) was the first comprehensive labor relations law in the US.  Provide three (3) facts about the NLRA, as support for its significance.

Union workers, on average, are more satisfied than non-union workers.

There are three (3) major exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine, as developed in common law. They include:

Red Scare   

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in this southern city.  He was there to support striking workers who wanted a union contract, improved working conditions, pay and civil rights.

The union security agreement that requires workers to join the union after completing a probationary period (i.e. 30-90 days), is known as a(n):

Eighteenth Amendment

What was the labor problem in the US prior to passage of major labor laws (such as the Railway Labor Act of 1926 and the National Labor Relations Act of 1935)? Provide four (4) specific examples.

What are important things to consider when designing scenery for an intimate performance (where the audience sits close to the stage)?

A popular framework for thinking about labor relations is to consider a pendulum that can swing from right to left in favor of unions or in favor of management. The Taft-Hartley Act (an amendment to the Wager Act) was passed in order to rebalance the system.  Provide two (2) important facts about the Taft-Hartley Act.