17 agos 1947 anni - Taft-Hartley Act

Descrizione:

[opposition] congress passed, truman vetoed (“slave labor”), congress overrode his veto
[goal] override the growing power of unions
[tactics]
Outlawed the ‘closed shop’
(contract requring workers to join a union before being hired)
Allowed states to pass ‘right to work’ laws outlawing union shop
(contract requiring workers to join a union after being hired)
Outlawed secondary boycotts
(unions supporting a striking union by joining a boycott of a company’s products)
Gave pres power to invoke an 80-day ‘cooling-off’ period before a strike endangering the national safety could be called
[effect]
Unions tried and failed to repeal it
Major dividing issue between dems/rep during 1950s