freightguy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 3:10 pm
I think Harry Truman was the last president to not have a college degree. Maybe they were onto something with that and today's institutions.
Mr. Freight Guy, more to the point is that "second leg of The Trilogy" - Taft Hartley - has provisions within it that can effectively obviate a union's right to strike. That provision is when the President believes "National Health and Safety" are jeopardized, and workers can be ordered back to work, under preexisting pay and conditions, indefinitely.
These provisions were no doubt formulated by strikes that occurred during The War (I've read books holding those years were not all
"Remember Pearl Harbor" and
"We did it before and we can do it Again") that probably did impede the war effort. President Truman, being a Democrat and by grace of being such, leaned pro-Labor, vetoed the legislation. However, Congress held by Republicans, overrode the veto (67% in both houses; mighty high standard to meet).
The Act, owing to its provisions for the PEB and the "cool off", has been deemed not to conflict T-H's injunction provisions. Incidentally, the other two "legs" of The Trilogy were first the Wagner Act enacted by FDR that was the first "foray" into government involvement in Labor Relations. The final leg, Landrum-Griffin, was enacted by Ike. The principal provision I took away from such (likely because much of my three years in Labor Relations was doing work relating to such) was the provision that an employee could take legal action against his own union for "failure to represent".
I of course defer to any here who are either barristers with experience in labor matters or anyone else who has experience within a union from "griever" to "General Chairman", for alll I have to put on the table is my three years within the field.
By the way, lest anyone interested, I was 4mo when WWII started; 5yo when it ended.