Which U.S. president signed the National Labor Relations Act of 1935?

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.

The law, also called the Wagner Act, established a national framework protecting many private-sector workers’ rights to organize, form unions, and bargain collectively. It also created the National Labor Relations Board to administer and enforce those protections.

Roosevelt signed the act during the New Deal era, when the federal government was passing major measures in response to the Great Depression. The legislation became one of the most important foundations of modern U.S. labor law.

The act is often confused with later labor legislation. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established federal minimum-wage and maximum-hours rules, while the Wagner Act focused primarily on collective labor relations and union rights.