Michael Dawson writes:
> Where is the repeal of Taft-Hartley?
It would behoove Michael to get with the times and understand the real demands of the labor movement today, rather than pretending that it is fifty-five years ago. Repealing Taft-Hartley and essentially going back to the Wagner Act laws is a nice idea, but there are other proposals on the table right now, including the Employee Free Choice Act -- endorsed by Kerry and Edwards and most Democrats, and even some Republicans to the point where it is likely to pass the Senate, though it will inevitably fail in the Republican-controlled House. This act would arguably give us the best labor law we have ever had in the form of card-check as the legally-established form of union recognition. That alone would make some of the worst of Taft-Hartley superfluous. Of course the prohibitions on secondary boycotts, the open-shop states, and all of that should be done away with, but I don't see how sitting around and whining impotently about Democratic unwillingness to do it is an effective substitute for a strategy to actually get there.
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