Word: hartley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieving its legislative goals in the 90th Congress is concerned, big labor has ample reason for feeling glum. Meany was guilty of understatement when he said that the chances were "pretty dim" to repeal Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act (the right-to-work provision), which triggered a long and bitter filibuster even in the liberal 89th. Equally bleak is labor's chance of getting restrictions on construction-site picketing eased. By contrast, the 90th Congress may prove far more receptive than the 89th to further limitations on strikes-such as airline stoppages-that have national repercussions...
...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...
...result, Congress this year rejected a batch of legislation, notably: a new civil rights bill with a controversial open-housing clause, a proposal to repeal the right-to-work section of the Taft-Hartley law, a measure giving home rule to the District of Columbia. Beyond that, Johnson's foreign-aid requests were slashed by nearly $500 million, and Administration measures to reform the Electoral College, create four-year House terms, and overhaul the 31-year-old unemployment-compensation system were never even brought to a final vote...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions seemed hopelessly deadlocked. Then, with only 60 hours to go before 125,000 workers were scheduled to strike, G.E. raised its offer by a tiny amount; though the raise fell far short of their demands, union leaders seized it rather than risk an 80-day Taft-Hartley-Act injunction against the walkout...
Javits kept his constituents happy by faithfully representing their views. He voted against Taft-Hartley and the House Un-American Activities Committee, became an eloquent defender of the European Recovery Program. Though he sided with the G.O.P. about 62% of the time during his freshman term, he voted with the Democrats on most key issues. In the next Congress, his record of party regularity dipped...