News Summary

• Taft-Hartley Act banned most of the labor actions used in the 1930s and 40s to give working people a voice in American life.
• It also expanded the ability of government to get injunctions to end strikes if the strike impacted national health and safety.
• It allowed anyone to terminate anyone in a workplace who did not pay union dues.
• Hartley was as much of a pro-business, anti-worker,.
• anti-New Deal hack as you could dream of being.
• He had done nothing but politics in his life and he would do nothing but that for a good long time.