Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas.
Do you know who this is? Bexar County Medical Examiner seeks tips in body found caseKSAT DEALSFILE - Cranes usually running day and night are shut down during a strike by ILA members at the Bayport Container Terminal on Oct. 1, 2024, in Houston. – Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has
Taft-Hartley also barred"secondary boycotts,'' thereby making it illegal for unions to pressure neutral companies to stop doing business with an employer that was targeted in a strike. According to the Congressional Research Service, about half the time that presidents have invoked Section 206 of Taft-Hartley, the parties worked out their differences. But nine times, according to the research service, the workers went ahead with a strike.
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