Word: 14b
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act. which permits states to bar labor contracts requiring all workers to join unions. The AFL-CIO also agreed to scratch a proposal that would have enabled unions to become exclusive bargaining agents in a workplace if a majority of employees signed membership cards. The move, in some instances, would have eliminated the need for Government-supervised elections to decide union representation...
...said that although he favors the repeal of section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act (the section which allows states to enact so-called "right to work" laws), "it's not a thing I get worked up about...
Only Sop. Suddenly the rest of labor's legislative program is in deep trouble. A prime example: repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head...
...Webb Corp., a $340 million-a-year Phoenix-based company that was founded by the late Del Webb, the renowned builder and former part-owner of the New York Yankees, who died in 1974. Late last month Sinatra filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a 14B form, which is the customary prelude to a proxy war. Bracing for the onslaught, the Del Webb Corp. announced that it might postpone its annual meeting, which is now set for April...
Faced with the defiance of the Webb board, Sinatra and Rudin last month evidently decided that their most effective course of action was to declare what amounts to a corporate war. After the 14B filing, Sinatra and Rudin were unwilling to say whether they were aiming for total control of the Webb Corp. or for merely one to three seats on the board. But it seems probable that Sinatra will settle only for his way-and that would mean control...