Carl Loeffler, Secretary of the Senate, certifies Senate passage over the presidential veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Union Curbing Bill, June 23, 1947. (AP Photo) In 1947, over President Harry Truman’s veto, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act. In doing so, it put an end to a long-since-forgotten era of labor unrest and paved the way to the prosperous 1950s.
Taft-Hartley curbed some of the worst excesses of Depression-era law that govern labor unions even to this day. Its greatest contribution to our modern governance was the state right-to-work law. States could forbid the pernicious practice of forcing workers to pay […]
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