The NLRA implements the national labor policy of ensuring what and encouraging collective bargaining as a means of maintaining what?

• A. industrial harmony / wage stability
• B. fair treatment / productivity
• C. free choice / industrial peace
• D. equal opportunity / social order

Answer: (C)

The policy behind the NLRA centers on giving workers a real choice in whether to organize and join a union, and on allowing them to bargain collectively through representatives they choose. When employees have free choice and a clear, formal path to negotiate terms of employment, disputes tend to be resolved through bargaining rather than confrontations, which helps keep labor relations stable and peaceful. So, free choice and collective bargaining are paired to maintain industrial peace. While wage stability or fairness can be outcomes of good labor relations, the law focuses on protecting workers’ option to choose representation and to bargain, as the means to prevent persistent conflict and disruption in the workplace.