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Taft–Hartley Act

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individual employees in their relations with labor organizations whose activities affect commerce, to define and proscribe practices on the part of labor and management which affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes affecting commerce.
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Finally, the act imposed a number of procedural and substantive standards that unions and employers must meet before they may use employer funds to provide pensions and other employee benefit to unionized employees. Congress has since passed more extensive protections for workers and employee benefit
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In jurisdictional strikes, outlawed by Taft–Hartley, a union strikes in order to assign particular work to the employees it represents. Secondary boycotts and common situs picketing, also outlawed by the act, are actions in which unions picket, strike, or refuse to handle the goods of a business with
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to the extent necessary to permit courts to issue injunctions against strikes violating a no-strike clause, but chose not to do so. The Supreme Court nonetheless held several decades later that the act implicitly gave the courts the power to enjoin such strikes over subjects that would be subject to
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and had no relationship with any organization seeking the "overthrow of the United States government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional means" as a condition to participating in NLRB proceedings. Just over a year after Taft–Hartley passed, 81,000 union officers from nearly 120 unions had
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ruling that employers have a constitutional right to express their opposition to unions, so long as they did not threaten employees with reprisals for their union activities nor offer any incentives to employees as an alternative to unionizing. The amendments also gave employers the right to file a
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The amendments expressly excluded supervisors from coverage under the act, and allowed employers to terminate supervisors engaging in union activities or those not supporting the employer's stance. The amendments maintained coverage under the act for professional employees, but provided for special
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by unions. The amendments also established the General Counsel’s autonomy within the administrative framework of the NLRB. Congress also gave employers the right to sue unions for damages caused by a secondary boycott, but gave the General Counsel exclusive power to seek injunctive relief against
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o promote the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce, to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to protect the rights of
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The amendments gave the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board discretionary power to seek injunctions against either employers or unions that violated the Act. The law made pursuit of such injunctions mandatory, rather than discretionary, in the case of
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petition asking the Board to determine if a union represents a majority of its employees, and allow employees to petition either to decertify their union, or to invalidate the union security provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement.
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An Act to amend the National Labor Relations Act, to provide additional facilities for the mediation of labor disputes affecting commerce, to equalize legal responsibilities of labor organizations and employers, and for other
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members. Union shops, still permitted, require new recruits to join the union within a certain amount of time. The National Labor Relations Board and the courts have added other restrictions on the power of unions to enforce
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each introduced measures to curtail the power of unions and prevent strikes. Taft's bill passed the Senate by a 68-to-24 majority, but some of its original provisions were removed by moderates, like Republican Senator
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failed in what one author described as "a shattering demonstration of labor's political weaknesses". Despite his opposition to the law, Truman relied upon it in twelve instances during his presidency.
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After spending several days considering how to respond to the bill, President Truman vetoed Taft–Hartley with a strong message to Congress, calling the act a "dangerous intrusion on
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affected the United States; by February 1946, nearly 2 million workers were engaged in strikes or other labor disputes. Organized labor had largely refrained from striking during
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The Act revised the Wagner Act's requirement of employer neutrality, to allow employers to deliver anti-union messages in the workplace. These changes confirmed an earlier
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in control of Congress for the first time since the early 1930s. Many of the newly elected congressmen were strongly conservative and sought to overturn or roll back
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The amendments required unions and employers to give 80 days' notice to each other and to certain state and federal mediation bodies before they may undertake
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The amendments also authorized individual states to outlaw union security clauses (such as the union shop) entirely in their jurisdictions by passing
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based upon a (never fulfilled) promise to repeal Taft–Hartley. Truman won, but a union-backed effort in Ohio to defeat Taft in
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incorporated aspects from both the House and Senate bills. The bill was promoted by large business lobbies, including the
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that ban agency fees. Furthermore, the executive branch of the federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking
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in the 1940s. Presidents have used that power less and less frequently in each succeeding decade. President
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which they have no primary dispute but which is associated with a targeted business. A later statute, the
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clauses and have required them to make extensive financial disclosures to all members as part of their
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The law outlawed closed shops which were contractual agreements that required an employer to hire only
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filed the required affidavits. This provision was at first upheld in the 1950 Supreme Court decision
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The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
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procedures before they may be included in the same bargaining unit as non-professional employees.
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class
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From the Wagner Act to Taft-Hartley: A Study of National Labor Policy and Labor Relations
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Fleischli, George R. (May–June 1968). "DUTY TO BARGAIN UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 10988".
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during negotiations with West Coast shipping and stevedoring companies in 2002.
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over litigation or strikes as the preferred means of resolving labor disputes.
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The Congress that passed the Taft–Hartley Amendments considered repealing the
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The amendments enacted in Taft–Hartley added a list of prohibited actions, or
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if an impending or current strike imperiled the national health or safety.
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final and binding arbitration under a collective bargaining agreement.
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The amendments required union leaders to file affidavits with the
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Faragher, J.M.; Buhle, M.J.; Czitrom, D.; and Armitage, S.H.
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The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America
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1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
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The act provided for federal court jurisdiction to enforce
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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States)
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Chauffeurs, Teamsters, and Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry
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The Act also prohibited federal employees from striking.
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and a number of states in the Midwest, Great Plains, and
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were heavily restricted, and states were allowed to pass
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Sanger, David E.; Greenhouse, Steven (October 9, 2002).
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Taft–Hartley was introduced in the aftermath of a major
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or other forms of economic action in pursuit of a new
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Labor's Giant Step: The First Twenty Years of the CIO
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
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Construction Workers v. Laburnum Construction Corp.
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Index

Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
Great Seal of the United States
80th United States Congress
Pub. L.
80–101
Statutes at Large
Stat.
136
29 U.S.C.: Labor
U.S.C.
29 U.S.C.
ch. 7
Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
R
NJ
308-107
68-24
Harry S. Truman
331-83
68-25
Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
United States Supreme Court
Garner v. Teamsters Union
346
U.S.
485
Construction Workers v. Laburnum Construction Corp.
347
U.S.
656

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