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Stacked Deck: The Rules of the Game Won’t Let the Unions Win

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Compa70_Stacked_deck.pdf (857.25 KB)
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Author
Compa, Lance A.
Abstract

[Excerpt] At the center of labor's problems is not the Reagan NLRB, but the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Even a pro-labor Board would be hamstrung by that law's antilabor biases. "Repeal Taft-Hartley," once a powerful rallying cry in the labor movement, today sounds as compelling as "Who Lost China?" And yet Taft-Hartley established the legal structure that has squeezed organized labor into its present tight spot Business Week, hardly a friend of the unions, foresaw the process in a 1948 editorial: The Taft-Hartley Act, the magazine said, "went too far. . . . Given a few million unemployed in America, given an Administration in Washington which was not pro-union-and the Taft-Hartley Act conceivably could wreck the labor movement."

Date Issued
1984-01-01
Keywords
labor movement
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union
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worker rights
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unionization
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National Labor Relations Board
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NLRB
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Taft-Hartley Act
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