Taft-Hartley Act

[ taft-hahrt-lee ]

noun

1. an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.

Taft-Hartley Act

1. A major law concerning labor , passed by Congress in 1947. President Harry S. Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley ( see veto ), but it became law by a two-thirds vote of Congress. It marked a reversal of the pro-labor policies pursued under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt . For example, the law prohibited a list of “unfair” labor practices and restricted the political activities of labor unions .

Example Sentences

Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Act, allowing states to enact so-called right-to-work measures and placing limits on when workers can go on strike.

From ProPublica

The Taft-Hartley Act has many serious and far-reaching defects.

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