Word: taft-hartley
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Said he: "It would be absolute suicide." The next day Hoffa was accused of conspiring with Commercial Carriers Inc., a Michigan trucking firm, to violate provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act that prohibit payoffs from employer to employee...
...such cases, the board recommended, the President should be empowered to: 1) appoint an emergency board which, as is now the case with the regulated railroads and airlines, would mediate the dispute and recommend settlement terms; 2) order an 80-day strike postponement without asking court sanction, as the Taft-Hartley law now requires; 3) go to Congress and ask for specific remedial action. All this would require a major overhaul of U.S. labor law and would mean further Government intervention in collective bargaining. Yet. of the six businessmen on the board, only Henry Ford II* publicly dissented from...
...merger itself in 1955. Two years later, he was a prime mover in the expulsion of the Teamsters from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. And in 1959 he was labor's legal strategist during a no-holds-barred Steelworkers' strike that lasted 116 days. When the Government invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to stop the strike for a cooling-off period, Goldberg fought the case to the Supreme Court-where he lost, even though the Justices concurred in public praise of his legal performance. The strike left Goldberg with a suspected gastric ulcer (an exploratory operation found nothing...
...dislike of "compulsory arbitration" that led Congressman John F. Kennedy to vote against the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 was still plainly visible last week in President Kennedy. As the fortnight-old maritime strike began closing down oil refineries in Texas and threatening residents of Puerto Rico and Hawaii with a diet of bananas and pineapples, the President's "fact-finding" board, which he appointed to determine whether the strike menaced the nation's health and safety, spent most of its time trying to revive negotiations between the shipowners and the seamen...
...become effective, the deal would require the assent of three smaller maritime unions and at week's end it seemed likely that at least one of them would reject the terms-a move that would force the President to decide whether to demand an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction against the seamen...