How did the wagner act and the social security act affect americans?

The Waganer Act. The act legalized the right to strike, barred employers for firing worker for their union activities, and required them to negotiate in good faith with a union once it had been certified as a bargaining agent by the National Labor Relations Board.

The Social Security Act placed a tax of 2 percent on labor at a time when unemployment in the United States exceeded 15 percent. Raising the cost of labor at a time when millions of people were out of work was not a policy likely to get more people back to work.