the type of shop outlawed by the taft-hartley act was the closed shop.
the type of shop outlawed by the taft-hartley act was the ____ shop?
closed
in response to the labor unrest of 1945 and 1946, congress passed the labor management relations act of 1947, also known as the taft–hartley act, which amended the national labor relations act of 1935. truman vetoed the bill, denouncing it as "slave-labor bill," but congress overrode the veto. the taft-hartley act added a list of prohibited union actions to the national labor relations act of 1935 (also known as the wagner act), which had defined several types of employer actions as unfair labor practices. taft-hartley prohibited jurisdictional strikes, in which a union strikes in order to pressure an employer to assign particular work to the employees that union represents, and secondary boycotts and "common situs" picketing, in which unions picket, strike, or refuse to handle the goods of a business with which they have no primary dispute but which is associated with a targeted business. the act also outlawed closed shops, which were contractual agreements that required an employer to hire only union members. the taft–hartley act also granted states power to pass "right-to-work laws," which ban union shop shops. all union officials were required to sign an affidavit that they were not communists or else the union would lose its federal bargaining powers guaranteed by the national labor relations board.
presidency of harry s. truman
by early 1949, elbert thomas sponsored legislation sent to congress by the truman administration that would repeal the taft–hartley act. taft predicted that a majority of the taft–hartley act would remain in law and began a week-long period of "one hard-pounding argument after another" defending the legislation. later that month, senators wayne morse and irving ives indicated interest in offering a new labor bill that would remove the section of the taft–hartley act allowing the government to have 80 day injunctions to halt critical strikes, the two publicly stating their hope that taft would back the legislation. in may, amid the truman administration's attempts to repeal the taft–hartley act through its own legislation, taft joined fellow republicans howard alexander smith and forrest c. donnell in introducing legislation that taft promoted as retaining "the best features of the taft–hartley law." in june, ahead of the senate opening debate on labor legislation, taft stated there would be a battle fought between his amended taft–hartley act and president truman's proposal for a repeal and confirmed to reporters he was "not contemplating any new concessions." when the senate resumed debate on june 8, taft responded to elbert d. thomas in a speech charging democratic members of the senate labor committee with playing partisan politics in their handling of the truman administration taft–hartley act repeal bill.
robert a. taft