The Wagner Act, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Landrum-Griffin Act all endorse the principle of collective bargaining.

* 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U. S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

In the United States, the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 outlawed the closed shop.

Because of this codification approach, a single named statute ( like the Taft-Hartley Act, or the Embargo Act ) may or may not appear in a single place in the Code.

After the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1946 by Congress, which called for the removal of Communist union leadership, the IWW experienced a loss of membership as differences of opinion occurred over how to respond to the challenge.

The Smith-Connally Act ( 1943 ) and Taft-Hartley Act ( 1947 ) extended the corporate ban to labor unions.

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From the Wagner Act to Taft-Hartley: A Study of National Labor Policy and Labor Relations.

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In 2002, a major west coast ports dispute costing the U. S. economy nearly $ 1 billion daily was resolved when the Department successfully instituted the Taft-Hartley Act for the first time since 1971.

In 1947, as part of the Taft-Hartley Act, the U. S. Congress prohibited labor unions or corporations from spending money to influence federal elections, and prohibited labor unions from contributing to candidate campaigns ( an earlier law, the 1907 Tillman Act, had prohibited corporations from contributing to campaigns ).

Clinton Jencks, the Mine, Mill organizer depicted in the film, was thereafter convicted of falsely stating he was not a communist on the affidavit required of all union representatives under the Taft-Hartley Act ; his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States, 353 U. S. 657 ( 1957 ).

He stumped across the state in a Jeep station wagon for the Marshall Plan, civil rights, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, more public housing, and more social security programs.

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not Communists.

That Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which made organizing more difficult, gave the states authority to pass right to work laws, and outlawed certain types of strikes and secondary boycotts.

) The Taft-Hartley amendments to the National Labor Relations Act empowered the National Labor Relations Board to resolve such jurisdictional disputes and authorized the General Counsel of the NLRB to seek an injunction barring such strikes.

After passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, the number of union victories in NLRB-conducted elections declined.

Emboldened by the new provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, which required union officers to sign an oath that they were not members of the Communist Party, outlawed the closed shop and gave the President authority to seek an 80-day " cooling off " period before a strike that would imperil the national health or safety, the employers pushed for a strike, hoping to rid themselves of Bridges and reclaim control over the hiring hall.

To avoid these constitutional difficulties, Mr. Justice Frankfurter was prepared to read the Taft-Hartley provision as concerned with diversity, rather than federal question, jurisdiction.

" Amongst the proposed measures included federal aid to education, a large tax cut for low-income earners, the abolition of poll taxes, an anti-lynching law, a permanent FEPC, a farm aid program, increased public housing, an immigration bill, new TVA-style public works projects, the establishment of a new Department of Welfare, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, an increase in the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour, national health insurance, expanded Social Security coverage, and a $ 4 billion tax increase to reduce the national debt and finance these programs.

" The Court found that both the Administrative Procedure Act and the Taft-Hartley Act, which amended the National Labor Relations Act, required that courts consider the whole record.

He raised money to flood the state with campaign circulars and won over conservatives by voting for the Taft-Hartley act ( curbing union power ) as well as by criticizing unions.

Just over a year after Taft-Hartley passed, eighty-one thousand ( 81, 000 ) union officers from nearly 120 unions had filed the required affidavits.

The bipartisan Conservative coalition in Congress passed anti-union legislation over liberal opposition, most notably the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

Murray had another fight on his hands in 1947 when the Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto.

Labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan attributes the drop to the long term effects of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which slowed and then halted labor's growth and then, over many decades, enabled management to roll back its previous gains.

Union leaders in the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) vigorously campaigned for Truman in the 1948 election based upon a ( never fulfilled ) promise to repeal Taft-Hartley.

" How Many Democrats Voted for Taft-Hartley?

Congress also amended the National Labor Relations Act, as part of the same piece of legislation that created the LMRDA, by tightening the Taft-Hartley Act's prohibitions against secondary boycotts, prohibiting certain types of " hot cargo " agreements, under which an employer agreed to cease doing business with other employers, and empowered the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board to seek an injunction against a union that engages in recognitional picketing of an employer for more than thirty days without filing a petition for representation with the NLRB.

That Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which, among other things, required all union officers to sign an affidavit that they were not Communists in order for the union to bring a case before the NLRB.

Under the law in effect before the Taft-Hartley amendments, an employee who ceased being a member of the union for whatever reason, from failure to pay dues to expulsion from the union as an internal disciplinary punishment, could also be fired even if the employee did not violate any of the employer's rules.

Secondary boycotting is frequently confused with secondary striking, which is also a prohibited tactic for those labor unions covered by the Taft-Hartley Act.

As one of only a few Democrats who had voted in favor of the Taft-Hartley Act, Chapman had lost the support of organized labor, a key constituency for the Democrats.

For example, the Taft-Hartley Act in the United States defines featherbedding in Section 8 ( b )( 6 ) as any agreement or union demand for payment of wages for services which are not performed or not to be performed.

Matusow claimed that he had known Clinton Jencks of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union to be a member of the American Communist Party ; this resulted in Jencks being sent to prison for perjury, even though, as a union official, Jencks was required to sign a non-Communist affidavit under the Taft-Hartley Labor Relations Act.

A Democrat among Republicans, he unsuccessfully pushed for revisions in the Taft-Hartley Act.

He is by far best known for being the House of Representatives sponsor of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.

The Steelworkers favored government seizure of the plants under any available theory to a Taft-Hartley injunction against it ; Arthur Goldberg, General Counsel for the Steelworkers and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, argued that the President had the inherent power to seize the plants, as well as the statutory authority under the Selective Service Act and the Defense Production Act.

The steel industry's brief focused instead on the lack of statutory authority for this seizure, emphasizing Congress ' decision when enacting the Taft-Hartley Act to give the President the power to seek an injunction against strikes that might affect the national economy instead.

Goldberg, speaking for the Steelworkers, addressed whether the Taft-Hartley Act would have allowed for injunctive relief in these circumstances.

" Goldberg, speaking for the Steelworkers, addressed whether the Taft-Hartley Act would have allowed for injunctive relief in these circumstances.