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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
Bv Ret. Burr P. Harrison
Washington—Most labor legislation tends to be controversial. By its nature, it generates sharp arguments as to purpose and effecfc In this area of lawmaking, one of the principles recurringly in dispute is embraced by “right-towork” legislation.
In general, “right-to-work” laws are those statutes which prohibit agreements requiring that an individual be a member of, or agree tto join, a labor union in order to be considered for employment. A partial acceptance of this principle nationally is represented by the Tafti Hartley Act, which bans “closed shop" agreements.those which require the worker to be a union member before employment. This federal law does not prohibit “union shop” agreements, in which employer and labor union agree that any workers hired who are not already union members must join the union within a certain time or be discharged. Nineteen States, including Virginia have gone a step further by enacting their own “right-to-work” laws, which outlaw both closed shop and union shop.
In Congress, there have been efforts to relax the Taft-Hartley Act in regard to arrangements which employers and unions might make to insure that only union workers be hired. On the other) hand, there has been considerable support for a national “right-towork” law along the lines of those voted by the legislatures of nineteen States.
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