Unfair labor practices

The Wagner Act prohibited a series of unfair labor practices by employers. The 

Taft-Hartley Act added a series of unfair labor practices that unions were prohibited from engaging in. The intent of Congress in passing the Wagner Act was to protect the right of workers to organize. However with the Taft-Hartley Act Congress moved to protect the right of workers not to organize. Unions were prohibited from coercing or discriminating against employees who chose not to be represented by a union. Unions were also placed under the same duty to bargain in good faith just like employers were with the Wagner Act. Unions were also prohibited from engaging in a third unfair labor practice called a secondary boycott. In a secondary boycott a union that has a dispute with one firm (the primary employer) involves neutral, secondary employers in the dispute either by striking them or causing their workers to refuse to handle the goods of the primary firm.