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...CARGO PACTS, by which common-carrier truck lines agree to boycott cargo going to or from any company that is branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are invalid. NLRB reversed its 1949 decision, said that such contracts are secondary boycotts in violation of Taft-Hartley...
Examiner George A. Downing ruled that Kohler must take back strikers whose jobs were not filled by June 1, 1954-even if it has to lay off non-union employees to make room for them. Under the Taft-Hartley Law, a company cannot dismiss workers who strike against unfair labor practices. On June 1, 1954, said Downing. Kohler began defying that provision; it raised non-strikers' pay without consulting the U.A.W., later fired 143 strikers and refused to bargain with the union over the dismissals...
Downing made two exceptions to his rehiring decision: Kohler need not take back 13 members of the union's strike committee, fired for leading mass picketing (illegal under Taft-Hartley), and it does not have to reinstate 30 other workers fired for serious strike misconduct...
...workers seem to be finding out that the once-hated Taft-Hartley Act gives them a right to complain to the Government against unfair pushing around by their own union bosses as well as their employers. In a speech to a gathering of labor lawyers last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chairman Boyd Leedom reported that, of the unfair-labor-practice cases handled by NLRB during the past year, individual workers filed 37% of the 3,522 charges against management, and a remarkable 46% of the 1,743 charges against unions...
...seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata for "attacking the Ghana government in court" and refused to let him back into the country to finish his case...