Word: taft-hartley
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Labor. Both support the right to organize, full employment, federal aid for depressed areas. At issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...
...court carefully noted that it was. not invalidating the right-to-work laws that are on the books in 18 states. Where Congress chooses to recognize them, as in the Taft-Hartley Act, they are still effective. But the decision made it clear that today's Supreme Court unanimously agrees that compulsory membership in a union shop does not violate any basic constitutional freedoms...
UNION VICTORIES have been won in two important cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In one, the court ruled that employers may not refuse to bargain with a union whose officers refuse to comply with the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. In the other, the court refused to rule on a lower-court decision that company stock purchase plans are subject to collective bargaining, thus in effect upheld the decision...
Proposals which would have gone far towards this end were introduced, of course, in the Eightieth Congress, yet none of them succeeeded, in spite of Republican majorities in both houses. The Taft-Hartley Act, which emerged as the compromise, cast formidable new obstacles in the way of union organization and conferred advantages upon management vis-a-vis labor which had not been therefore a part...
...managed the Republicans' national Speakers Bureau, booking Republican speeches all over the U.S. During the 80th Congress he chaired and drastically reorganized the Congressional Campaign Committee. Three years later he ran into the biggest political fight of his career by refusing to vote for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. William De Koning, Nassau County's racketeering labor boss, called on Hall in a rage. Hall still quivers with indignation when he recalls it: "This labor thug-he is just out of jail-came to see me to raise hell about Taft-Hartley. Finally, he took the position...