The Taft-Hartley Act was a major revision of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Wagner Act) and represented the first major revision of a New Deal act passed by a post-war Congress. So, in order to understand the Taft-Hartley Act, one must begin with the Wagner Act. The Wagner Act was the most important labor law in American history. It gave a major impetus to labor organizations and earned the nickname "labor's bill of rights." It covered all firms and employees in activities affecting interstate commerce except government employees, agricultural workers, and those subject to the Railway Labor Act. It gave workers the right to organize and join labor unions, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to strike. It also set up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency with three members appointed by the president, to administer the act and gave it the power to certify that a union represented a particular group of employees.
Is Lincoln's compromised, hesitant effort to end slavery defensible?
Word's ruler system enables you to keep an eye on the layout of objects on your page, denoting the page's editable area and making it easier to see how far down the page a given object is located. In addition, you can use Word's static guides in conjunction with the vertical ruler to get a fully accurate ...
VEGAN MUSHROOM BISQUE Serves 6 to 8 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, more if needed ¾ pound cremini mushrooms, thinly sliced ½ pound shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced, stems discarded Salt and...
The state is an especially important symbolic win for gay rights advocates. It was there where the first legal challenge seeking equal treatment was filed in the '90s.
A 23-year old transgender and gay man was beheaded in his home town of Kuruman, South Africa Friday, in an anti-gay hate crime. Thapelo Makutle, who was crowned Miss Gay Kuruman, was murdered by two men who remain at large. Reports state that police, for reasons of language and training, are not classifying the murder as a hate […]
President George W. Bush made a shocking assertion back in 2005 when he was pushing to privatize Social Security. “A lot of people in America think there is a trust,” he said, “that we take your money in payroll taxes and then we hold it for you and then when you retire, we give it back to you. But that’s not the way it works. There is no trust fund — just IOUs ….”
It's a dodge, it's a smokescreen, it's a red herring, it's bullshit. I'm frankly sick of it. Every time we get into this, we get the "What about Chicago?" and "What about Black guys that Kill ...
It all started with a Constitution that allowed slavery to continue unmolested in the Southern states, only limiting the importation of additional slaves after 1808. In addition to requiring the ...
Sponsors of legislation to access federal Medicaid expansion dollars to purchase private health care insurance for the working poor said Tuesday they have devised a plan that would have no
In protests that continue to ripple across the country, workers have attested to the variety of ways by which they are deprived of their due pay.
America has experienced yet another mass shooting.As a criminologist, I have reviewed recent research in hopes of debunking some of the common misconceptions I hear creeping into discussions that spring up whenever a mass shooting occurs.#1: More guns don’t make you saferA study I conducted on mass ...
One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes.
A bill would specify electrocution when the drugs for a lethal injection are not available.
Mac users get hacked, too. Here are some tips for when you think your Apple's core is rotten with malware.
Tourists heading to Egypt may want to rethink their trip: The U.S. Embassy in Cairo is telling visitors to stay away from a main attraction -- the pyramids...
Five banks were named in a novel lawsuit based on the 1992 Anti-Terrorism Act.
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most significant documents in American history. However, the origin of one of its signature phrases -- the pursuit of happiness -- is shrouded in mystery.
A panel recommended overhauling the decades-old retirement system and dismantling the existing health care program for families.
The sound you hear are the murmurings of abstinence-only educators as they wail with their heads stuck in the sand. A superior court judge has ruled that abstinence-only education is not a legal ...
Yesterday, four Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors in Worcester, Massachusetts, had their trial date rescheduled to January of 2016. Now, we’re hearing that the judge in the case, Central Distri
Bassinet Mattress Safety. There are many sleep options for today's newborns, including Moses baskets, bassinets, cradles and cribs. With each option, it's very important for the health of the infant to consider all safety aspects of the bed, from bedding and blankets to bumpers and mattress quality. Bassinets offer parents the convenience of having baby at bedside in the early weeks of life, as well as mobility a crib can't provide. There are currently a plethora of bassinets in every price range on the market. While price is a consideration, the safety of the mattress is far more important.
State officials have closed recreational and commercial fishing for Dungeness and rock crab on the California coast, due to a large algae bloom that's making the crab unsafe for consumption.
