Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Steven Young, but withdrew from the race after he slipped on a bathroom rug and began to suffer dizzy spells. In 1970 he tried again, but he was still running as a space hero; he lost in the primary to Howard Metzenbaum who was defeated by Republican Robert Taft Jr. Then Glenn sensibly undertook the business of being a politician. He ran a citizens' committee for Democratic Governor John Gilligan, chaired an environmental task force, and ate countless dinners of rubber chicken on the state political circuit. This year he beat Metzenbaum in the primary, and last week...
...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...
...illnesses of many political leaders, Dr. Silverman believes, fit his theories: Lyndon Johnson's last heart attack, Robert Taft's terminal cancer, Joseph McCarthy's fatal liver ailment and Richard Nixon's phlebitis, all seem to him to have been triggered by the intense emotional stress of a traumatic event, though not enough is known about the "target organs" involved...
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...