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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 03:17 PM
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6. Taft-Hartley Act, passed in '47 by overriding Truman's veto.
The cold war was gearing up, the government and unions were all full of commies, and it HAD to be passed to keep the commies from gaining power - and so made real cooperation between unions illegal. No sympathy strikes, support strikes, support picketing, etc.

Capitalist divide & conquer.

Labor has been going down hill ever since.

When Reagan fired PATCO in 81, there should not have been a single union that did NOT strike in protest, but if they had they'd have been breaking the law. It's been open season on the unions ever since.
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