Word: hartley
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LABOR. Repeals the Taft-Hartley Act provision that allows states to ban union shops. Thus, the so-called right-to-work laws now on the books in 19 states would be invalid...
Workshops on Saturday and Sunday will discuss issues from the Vietnam war to the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's right-towork provisions...
Section 14(b) gives to the states the right to enact their own right-to-work laws banning union-shop contracts. Nineteen states* have done that, and of the entire Taft-Hartley law, 14(b) has become the section most odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge...
...cried U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Gerholz. Werner P. Gullander, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was unhappy because 14(b), he said, "permits the states to protect employees from being forced into labor unions against their will." New Jersey's former Republican Representative Fred A. Hartley, co-author of Taft-Hartley, dismissed the President's proposal as "a ridiculous move." But labor was elated. Calling Johnson's statement "clear and unequivocal," the A.F.L.C.I.O.'s Meany said: "The question here is simply stated: Do you believe in the right of employers and unions...
Obviously, McDonald had finally been convinced that if labor is to achieve all its hopes-including repeal of Taft-Hartley's 14(b)-it must first show that it is responsible not only to the public, but to itself...