Inspired in part by
this thread.
Congress passed laws banning
"yellow dog" contracts (which forbade unions), & under
Lochner &
Adair, SCotUS declared this unconstitutional. Moreover, Mass. law following
Vegelahn prohibited workers' interference with customers.
So, suppose SCotUS had not overturned
Lochner, & moreover had made
Vegelahn stronger, preventing interference with strikebreakers. Add OTL's ban on sit-in strikes (like GM 1937). Add also a ban on boycotts (which, IIRC, SCotUS overturned). Does this effectively emasculate unions?
If this is effectively makes unions illegal, what does the American labor scene look like in 1940? 1960? Today?
Edit: I should be clear: the headline was meant to be provocative; I meant functionally rather than actually....