The American Anti-Corruption Act. At Republican Convention, Lines Blur for Party and ‘Super PACs’ Bloomberg Forming ‘Super PAC’ to Influence 2012 Races. Taft-Hartley Labor Act. Taft-Hartley Labor Act, 1947, passed by the U.S.
Congress, officially known as the Labor-Management Relations Act. Sponsored by Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred Allan Hartley, the act qualified or amended much of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act of 1935, the federal law regulating labor relations of enterprises engaged in interstate commerce, and it nullified parts of the Federal Anti-Injunction (Norris-LaGuardia) Act of 1932. The act established control of labor disputes on a new basis by enlarging the National Labor Relations Board and providing that the union or the employer must, before terminating a collective-bargaining agreement, serve notice on the other party and on a government mediation service. The government was empowered to obtain an 80-day injunction against any strike that it deemed a peril to national health or safety.
See bibliography under labor law. Pluralism (political philosophy) For pluralism to function and to be successful in defining the common good, all groups have to agree to a minimal consensus that shared values are at least worth pursuing.
The most important baseline value is thus that of mutual respect or tolerance. If no such dialogue is possible, extremism and physical coercion are likely inevitable. Rajiv Krishnan Kozhikode and Jiatao Li, Political pluralism, public policies, and organizational choices: banking branch expansion in India, 1948–2003, Academy of Management Journal, 55(2), 339-359.Pluralism and Liberal Democracy, Richard E. Flatham (2005). " Taft-Hartley: 50 years. Taft-Hartley: A Workers' Nightmare UPS workers rallied in New Jersey on Aug. 13, a week before they won their strike.
Without intervention, the Teamster members were able to win a decent contract. But under the Taft-Hartley Act, President Clinton could have ordered the strikers back to work and sabotaged their fight. In fact, he was urged to do so by everyone from UPS management to Newt Gingrich. No politician should be allowed to rob workers of their most powerful weapon against employers.