Taft-Hartley Act

The popular name for the Labor-Management Relations Act of1947, whose purpose is to protect employers' rights by broadening their rightsto free speech on unionization; by permitting them to disregard unions formedby supervisory personnel; by outlawing the closed shop; by permitting employeesto refrain from union activity; by limiting employee elections on whether tounionize to one per year; by prohibiting unions from forcing an employee tojoin, from forcing an employer to discriminate against non-union employees,from refusing to bargain collectively with the employer, from engaging inwildcat strikes, from charging discriminatory membership fees, and fromextracting favors or kickbacks from employers.