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    The Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, better known as the TaftHartley 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 TaftHartley Act amended the NLRA, establishing a series of labor practices for unions...
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    New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the TaftHartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the concept of right-to-work...
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    known for being the House of Representatives sponsor of the TaftHartley Act in 1947. Hartley was born in Harrison, New Jersey, on February 22, 1902. After...
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  • they attempted to force members back to work using the Taft-Hartley Act. Under the Taft-Hartley Act, Biden could seek a court order for an 80-day cooling-off...
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    government agency upon enactment of the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 (TaftHartley Act) and mandated to resolve industrial conflict and promote labor-management...
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  • to refrain from being a member of a labor union. The 1947 federal TaftHartley Act governing private sector employment prohibits the "closed shop" in...
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  • limiting the degree to which the act, and other legislation, could extend power to workers. The 1947 TaftHartley Act emerged partially as a consequence...
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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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    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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    Congress overrode Truman's veto of the TaftHartley Act on June 23, 1947, and the bill became law. The TaftHartley Act fundamentally changed the nature of...
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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 TaftHartley 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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  • of the TaftHartley 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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    their officials' relationships with employers. After enactment of the TaftHartley Act in 1947, the number of union victories in National Labor Relations...
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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 TaftHartley Act, in 1947 revised the Wagner Act to include restrictions on unions as...
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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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  • subsequent amendments in 1910 and 1925, the Hatch Act, the Smith–Connally Act of 1943, and the TaftHartley Act in 1947. These acts sought to regulate corporate...
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  • insurance, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, and repeal of the TaftHartley Act. They were all debated at length, then voted down. Nevertheless, enough...
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    effects.: 36, (42 in pdf)  Within this period, with the passing of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, the program was revamped under the work stoppage program,...
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    Tribune and other Chicago papers had been on strike in protest of the TaftHartley Act. Around the same time, the Tribune had switched to a method by which...
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    emergency injunction against both the employers and the union under the TaftHartley Act for the first time since 1971. Led by Chao, in 2003, for the first...
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    Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the TaftHartley Act, opposed "discrimination against race, religion or national origin"...
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    Republican Party successfully passed the TaftHartley Act despite the vigorous opposition of Murray and the CIO. After the act passed, Murray and the CIO were...
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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 TaftHartley Act outlawed the closed...
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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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    control of Congress in 1946, and in 1947 passed the TaftHartley Act, drafted by Senator Robert A. Taft. President Truman vetoed it but the Conservative...
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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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