Labor Quiz: What Taft-Hartley Didn't Do
Monday, April 30, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Which of the following did the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act NOT do: authorized states
to enact “right-to-work” laws; required union leaders to swear allegiance to
the United States; prohibited strikes by federal government employees;
prohibited secondary boycotts. Click here to submit your
answer and you could be next week’s winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: The Army of the Commonweal in Christ is more
well-known as Coxey’s Army, 500 unemployed civil war veterans whose march
reached Washington, DC on April 29, 1894. Kelly's Army was the western section
of Coxey’s Army and the Bonus Army is the popular name of an assemblage of
some 43,000 marchers who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the spring and summer
of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service
certificates.