The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power...
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v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., decided April 12, 1937. The 1947 Taft–Hartley Act amended the NLRA, establishing a series of labor practices for unions...
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known for being the House of Representatives sponsor of the Taft–Hartley Act in 1947. Hartley was born in Harrison, New Jersey, on February 22, 1902. After...
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New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the concept of right-to-work...
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audience meetings were a per se violation of the NLRA. Sections of the Taft–Hartley Act were designed to overturn these rulings. In November 1946, voters elected...
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Right-to-work law (section Taft–Hartley Act (1947))
to refrain from being a member of a labor union. The 1947 federal Taft–Hartley Act governing private sector employment prohibits the "closed shop" in...
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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States) (section Role under the Taft–Hartley Act)
government agency upon enactment of the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft–Hartley Act) and mandated to resolve industrial conflict and promote labor-management...
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Wildcat strike (section Taft-Hartley Act of 1947)
limiting the degree to which the act, and other legislation, could extend power to workers. The 1947 Taft–Hartley Act emerged partially as a consequence...
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their officials' relationships with employers. After enactment of the Taft–Hartley Act in 1947, the number of union victories in National Labor Relations...
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Party and its subsidiary organizations." After the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1946 by Congress, which called for the removal of Communist union...
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employer and employee representatives after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. In practice, Taft-Hartley plans have many units of local pension funds, under...
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Text of Taft Hartley Act of 1947) "The Taft-Hartley Act". Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2009. “Truman-Taft stands...
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the Taft–Hartley Act into law over his veto. It reversed some of the pro-labor union legislation that was central to the New Deal. When Robert A. Taft, the...
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Congress overrode Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act on June 23, 1947, and the bill became law. The Taft–Hartley Act fundamentally changed the nature of...
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employees. The PRO Act would amend the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (also known as the Wagner Act), the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Labor-Management...
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AFL–CIO. The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, also known as the Taft–Hartley Act, in 1947 revised the Wagner Act to include restrictions on unions as...
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of the Taft–Hartley Act to prevent the union from striking. The administration rejected that option, however, both from a distaste for the Act, which...
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Paul M. Herzog (section Implementing Taft-Hartley)
Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act on June 23, 1947, and the bill became law. Herzog's implementation of the Taft-Hartley Act proved problematic. Herzog...
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1947: Taft-Harley Labour Act passed. The Act was created by Robert Taft and Fred Hartley. The Taft-Hartley Act was enabled to replace the Wagner Act of 1935...
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Republican Party successfully passed the Taft–Hartley Act despite the vigorous opposition of Murray and the CIO. After the act passed, Murray and the CIO were...
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insurance, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, and repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act. They were all debated at length, then voted down. Nevertheless, enough...
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control of Congress in 1946, and in 1947 passed the Taft–Hartley Act, drafted by Senator Robert A. Taft. President Truman vetoed it but the Conservative...
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Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft–Hartley Act, opposed "discrimination against race, religion or national origin"...
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President Jimmy Carter invoked the national emergency provision of the Taft-Hartley Act. An investigatory commission met on March 7, and held hearings at which...
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Eisenhower to invoke the back-to-work provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. The union sued to have the Act declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court upheld...
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shop until the 1990 act. The famous English tort law case of Rookes v Barnard concerned a closed shop agreement. The Taft–Hartley Act outlawed the closed...
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Tribune and other Chicago papers had been on strike in protest of the Taft–Hartley Act. Around the same time, the Tribune had switched to a method by which...
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subsequent amendments in 1910 and 1925, the Hatch Act, the Smith–Connally Act of 1943, and the Taft–Hartley Act in 1947. These acts sought to regulate corporate...
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Hartley was the son of Congressman Frederick Allan Hartley, Jr., a New Jersey Republican remembered in history for the Taft-Hartley Act. Al Hartley was...
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Travis eventually left the party to comply with specifications of the Taft-Hartley Act, but his activities were heavily scrutinized by Senator Joseph McCarthy...
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