Taft-Hartley Act

[ taft-hahrt-lee ]

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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.

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How to use Taft-Hartley Act in a sentence

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.
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A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
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Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
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That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
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The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.
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But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.
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He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulouslyâ€”and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
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He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfiedâ€”not even himself.
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He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.
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This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.
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The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.
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Cultural definitions for Taft-Hartley Act

Taft-Hartley Act

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 â€œunfairâ€ labor practices and restricted the political activities of labor unions.

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