Labor law is, in brief, an invocation to class collaboration, or at least class peace. It has above all a regulatory function, which is hidden under its apparent declaration of the rights of labor. If this characterization appears unduly harsh, recall the Supreme Court’s many employer-friendly amendments to the Labor Relations Act even before the Taft-Hartley amendments of 1947, of which more later. Section 8 of the Labor Relations Act granted employers free speech rights that effectually legalized tactics designed to intimidate workers during union representation election campaigns. These rights were not a major factor in union representation elections until the late 1940s. Since then, first in the South and then almost everywhere in the country, employer intimidation of workers became a routine feature of these elections