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Word: 14b (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of future economic legislation, business won and labor lost. A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders lament that in the next session of Congress they will have no hopes of expanding minimum-wage laws or repealing the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14B, which permits states to ban the union shop. Labor will be put in the defensive position-unique in recent years-of fighting off legislation to bar strikes and buttress the battered wage-price guidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Reaction: Favorable | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...when it comes to dealing with walkouts by public employees, and gives the Government no legal leverage to stop a national strike once a mandatory 80-day cooling-off period has expired. On the other hand, Johnson promised to try again for repeal of Tart-Hartley's Section 14b, the celebrated "right-to-work" clause that allows states to outlaw union shops. He also asked Congress to "improve unemployment insurance" and to increase the minimum hourly wage, probably from $1.25 to around $1.50-still well below the $1.75 wage approved last year by the House Education and Labor Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SAID THE PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...produce some very fundamental changes in this society. If the vote becomes a reality to the Southern Negro, for example, it would destroy the Dixiecrat-Republican conservative coalition that dominates Congress, and allow the passage of key legislation (such as genuine home rule for Washington, D.C., repeal of section 14B of the Taft-Hartley law, and so fourth). However, for the Negro, as for the white worker, full economic freedom and security can only be achieved under socialism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter From the Communist Party | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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