This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.

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The point of legitimating unions, which happened through the Wagner Act (1935), was to provide workers with some kind of countervailing power to business owners within the capitalism system.

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On May 19 at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Levine will conduct the Met Orchestra in a program that will include the prelude to Act I of Wagner's "Lohengrin, " Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, featuring piano soloist Evgeny Kissin, and Schubert's Symphony No. 9.

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