Word: taft-hartley
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...federal government's role in the action has also thickened with the plot. Despite Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan's threat at the strike's onset that President Ford would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to order the miners back to work if they rejected a tentative settlement, despite the continual release of memos from Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton decrying the growing number of lay-offs resulting from the "miners' strike"--indicating, apparently, that no one has lost his job due to the coal operators' recalcitrance--the initial response from Washington officials...
...wanted to work would go to the hiring hall where the UFW would pass out assignments. This meant that a worker could only get a job through the union, worker could not get a job through the union, establishing a closed shop. The closed shop is illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act, but the act does not cover farm labor. The closed shop hiring hall gave Chavez tremendous power over the workers. He could now simply withhold assignments from anyone who didn't behave. The work was now Chavez's to distribute, and those whom he disliked would...
...current energy crunch may also induce government intervention in the impending strike. While an invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act and an injunction providing for an eighty day cooling-off period would be the government's simplest move, such action would merely delay the strike to the coldest months of the winter if concessions by the management were not forthcoming. Such a delay would put even more public pressure on the producers to come to terms with union demands...
Collective Bargaining. Until last year, the Taft-Hartley Act prevented private companies from joining with labor unions to offer legal insurance. Congress has now amended the law so that labor and management can both contribute to legal-insurance funds, as they have long been permitted to do with pension and health plans. As a result, Hugh Duffy, former chief counsel of the House Special Subcommittee on Labor, predicts: "Prepaid legal services will now be in the mainstream of collective bargaining." So far, some 25 labor unions have persuaded employers to help set up and contribute to legal insurance funds. Some...
...first six months in the Senate, Morse made more speeches than all the other freshmen combined. He started to take stands without regard I to party position or leadership preference. He backed President Truman when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, when he seized the nation's steel mills in an effort to forestall a strike and when he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Though Morse fervently supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1952, he became disillusioned by Ike's cautious civil rights stand and by his choice of Richard Nixon as a running mate. Switching...