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Will Trump allow a strike against UPS?
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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3548596" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>Nope but it does help to show your ignorance.</p><p></p><p>The discussion is Trump declaring that UPS is too important to the US economy and security to let it be struck.</p><p>This has happened in the past.</p><p>The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 authorizes the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency, a reaction to the national coal miners' strikes called by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers_of_America" target="_blank">United Mine Workers of America</a> in the 1940s. Presidents have used that power less and less frequently in each succeeding decade. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" target="_blank">George W. Bush</a> invoked the law in connection with the employer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout_(industry)" target="_blank">lockout</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Longshore_and_Warehouse_Union" target="_blank">International Longshore and Warehouse Union</a> during negotiations with West Coast shipping and stevedoring companies in 2002.</p><p>Truman invoked the law 12 times.</p><p></p><p>Clinton was considering invoking the law in the 1997 but was dissuaded by the Labor Secretary <a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9708/14/ups/herman.jpg" target="_blank">Alexis Herman</a>.</p><p></p><p>The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 authorizes the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]196371[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 authorizes the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3548596, member: 18222"] Nope but it does help to show your ignorance. The discussion is Trump declaring that UPS is too important to the US economy and security to let it be struck. This has happened in the past. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 authorizes the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency, a reaction to the national coal miners' strikes called by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers_of_America']United Mine Workers of America[/URL] in the 1940s. Presidents have used that power less and less frequently in each succeeding decade. President [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush']George W. Bush[/URL] invoked the law in connection with the employer [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout_(industry)']lockout[/URL] of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Longshore_and_Warehouse_Union']International Longshore and Warehouse Union[/URL] during negotiations with West Coast shipping and stevedoring companies in 2002. Truman invoked the law 12 times. Clinton was considering invoking the law in the 1997 but was dissuaded by the Labor Secretary [URL='http://www.cnn.com/US/9708/14/ups/herman.jpg']Alexis Herman[/URL]. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 authorizes the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency [ATTACH=full]196371[/ATTACH] The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 authorizes the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency. [/QUOTE]
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