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While Oakland remained a strong union city after this, the strikes of 1946 around the nation and especially the Oakland General Strike led to the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Taft-Hartley was an open attack on the labor movement, limiting labor’s ability to strike, banning sympathy strikes (which could make it legally difficult for today’s unions to support Occupy Oakland’s general strike), and allow individual states to pass so-called “right to work” laws, meaning that just because there is a union at your workplace doesn’t mean you have to join it.
CB: Yes, see my LBO-talk post from 1998 below:
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1998/1998-August/004655.html Labor Law Reform Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Mon Aug 3 08:28:37 PDT 1998
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Tom,
Thanks for the reference. However, didn't the percentage of unionized work force begin to decline way before 1979 , like about in 1950 or '55 when McCarthyism and Reutherism came to prevail ?
Repeal Taft-Hartley !
Charles Brown
>>> Tom Lehman <uswa12 at lorainccc.edu> 08/03 11:28 AM >>>
Dear Doug and the Left Business Observers,
Here is the story in a nutshell, and, how it relates to some of the questions we have been talking about.
Thanks, to the USWA Rapid Response team! Sincerely and Fraternally, Tom