Taft–Hartley Act
The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.
The act, still active, was sponsored by Senator Robert A. Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. , and became law despite U. S. President Harry S. Truman' s veto on June 23,1947. Labor leaders called it the" slave-labor bill" while President Truman argued that it was a" dangerous intrusion on free speech" , arguing that it would" conflict with important principles of our democratic society" .
The Taft-Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; informally the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935. The principal author of the Taft-Hartley Act was J. Mack Swigert, of the Cincinnati law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister.
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1947 in the United States
United States federal legislation