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Taft Hartley Act
The Labor-Management Relations Act, informally the Taft-Hartley Act, is a United States federal law greatly restricting the activities and power of labor unions. The Act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and legislated by over-riding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill"[1] while President Truman argued it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society"[2] despite subsequently using it twelve times during his presidency.[3] The Taft-Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; informally the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935.
Taft-Hartley and the secret ballot
A bit of relevant background for the card check debate from Hans von Spakovsky: The provisions for secret ballots in union representation elections are outlined in Section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act, codified at 29 U...
Interview with Nina Hartley
Flea, who blogs here, published her interview with pornography performer Nina Hartley here. Click the aforesaid link if you are interested in reading it, don’t if you aren’t.
A Few Words About Pornography and the Link to the Hartley Interview
I posted this because it struck me as illuminating one small piece of the complicated terrain that is the porn industry. It’s an industry with high rates of violence, disease transmission, injury, substance abuse and suicide, and generally very modest financial rewards, at least for performers...
Publication: Hartley on International Commercial Litigation
Trevor Hartley (LSE) has published a new textbook entitled, International Commercial Litigation: Text, Cases and Materials on Private International Law, published by Cambridge University Press...
Shomade & Hartley on Network Analysis of Trial Courts
Salmon A. shomade and Roger E. Hartley (University of New Orleans and University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy) have posted Exploring the Application of Network Analysis to the Study of Trial Courts on SSRN...
Taft: Video
A video about President Taft can be found here.
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