Today in Labor History June 23 Congress overrides Truman's veto anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act more

[Omaha Steve]

June 23

Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, goes to Butte, Mont. in an attempt to mediate a conflict between factions of the miner’s local there. It didn’t go well. Gunfight in the union hall killed one man; Moyer and other union officers left the building, which was then leveled in a dynamite blast - 1914


Congress overrides President Harry Truman's veto of the anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act. The law weakened unions and let states exempt themselves from union requirements. Twenty states immediately enacted open shop laws and more followed - 1947

And this:
June 23, 1947 - The anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act was passed over President Harry Truman’s veto. The act weakened unions and allowed states to exempt themselves from union requirements. Twenty states immediately enacted anti-union open shop laws.


OSHA issues standard on cotton dust to protect 600,000 workers from byssinosis, also known as "brown lung" - 1978

The newly-formed Jobs With Justice stages its first big support action, backing 3,000 picketing Eastern Airlines mechanics at Miami Airport - 1987

A majority of the 5,000 textile workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in Kannapolis, N.C., vote for union representation after an historic 25-year fight - 1999

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_06_23_2011

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Thanks, Steve.

I am regularly astonished by the number of people I talk to who have never heard of Taft/Hartley.