Taft-Hartley Act
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The Taft-Hartley Act (1947), or Taft-Hartley Labor Act, was perhaps the single greatest legislative achievement of the 20th century,[1] passed by a Republican Congress in override of President Harry Truman's veto. The Taft-Hartley Act single-handedly ended the dire and growing problem of strikes involving millions of workers after World War II, and saved capitalism from the unions in the United States. Ever since the Act's passage, Democrats have unsuccessfully attempted to repeal it.
The Act itself was written by the conservative legal scholar Robert Taft, who was then the Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate and a three-time presidential candidate.
The Act achieved the following:
- bans unfair union practices such as secondary strikes
- prohibits the jurisdictional strike
- outlaws closed shops
- authorizes the President to seek a federal court injunction to require an eighty-day cooling-off period for a strike threatening a national interest.
