One goal of the Landrum-Griffin Act was to
A) firmly establish the right of unions to engage in collective bargaining.
B) set up the means by which unions could be certified as bargaining agents for workers.
C) clean up the corrupt practices of unions.
D) prevent employees engaged in providing critical services such as health care or police protection from going out on strike.

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The Landrum-Griffin Act, also known as the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, was passed in 1959 to address the issues of corruption and misuse of power by unions. The act introduced a series of regulations to promote transparency and accountability in union operations, to prevent union leaders from embezzling funds or making deals that conflict with the interests of their members. While the act also affirmed the right of workers to engage in collective bargaining and established procedures for certification of unions as bargaining agents, these were not the primary goals of the law. Preventing critical service employees from going on strike was not part of the Landrum-Griffin Act either.

One Goal of the Landrum-Griffin Act Was to