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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...
Marshall certainly wasted no time in outlining his agenda. He said he would present to President-elect Carter the "strongest case" for repealing Rule 14B, the Taft-Hartley Act's "right to work" provision authorizing states to void labor contracts requiring workers to join unions. This, in Marshall's view, would be part of an "equitable solution" under which workers could henceforth be compelled to pay dues but not to join unions. (Carter has not called for the repeal of 14B but has said he would sign a repeal if passed by Congress.) Marshall also denounced existing...
...group of supporters in South Carolina, he declared: "Carter may be your geographic neighbor, but we want to be your philosophic neighbor." Inevitably, Dole got in a sharp dig at what he calls Carter's "equivocation." A common line: "He has taken so many stands on 14B [the right-to-work law], the next time they ask him, he'll probably say it's his shoe size...
...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...
...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...