David Hartley

(noun)

A British member of Parliament who served as the British representative at the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1793

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  • The Treaty of Paris

    • Meanwhile, David Hartley, a member of the British Parliament, represented King George III.
  • The Treaty of Paris

    • The treaty was signed at the Hotel d’York by U.S. representatives John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, as well as David Hartley, a member of the British Parliament who represented King George III in negotiations.
  • Labor Management Relations Act

    • The Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Amendment) is a U.S federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
    • Hartley, Jr. and became law by overriding U.S.
    • The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which Congress passed in 1935.
    • President Harry Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley, but Congress overrode his veto.
    • Examine the Taft-Hartley Act's impact on the National Labor Relations Act
  • Labor-Management Relations Act

    • The Labor-Management Relations Act (or the Taft-Hartley Act) is a U.S. federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
    • Hartley, Jr. and became law by overriding U.S.
    • The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (informally, the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935.
    • The principal author of the Taft–Hartley Act was J.
    • Taft–Hartley was one of more than 250 union-related bills pending in both houses of Congress in 1947.
  • Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

    • For example, although Truman vetoed it, the Taft-Hartley Act significantly curtailed the power of the labor unions.
    • However, Taft-Hartley also allows states to pass what are called right-to-work laws which prohibit union shops; about half of all states have passed such laws.
    • Taft-Hartley also prohibits what is called featherbedding, union practices requiring an employer to pay for unnecessary work or unnecessary workers.
    • As he readied for the 1948 election, Truman made clear his identity as a Democrat in the New Deal tradition, advocating national health insurance, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and an aggressive civil rights program.
  • Painting and Sculpture

    • John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Henry Maurer, Arthur B.
    • Irving Couse, William Henry Jackson, Marsden Hartley, Andrew Dasburg, and Georgia O'Keeffe were some of the more prolific artists of the Southwest.
    • Hartley was among the early modernist painters in the United States.
  • Landrum-Griffin Act

    • After passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, the number of union victories in NLRB-conducted elections declined.
    • But in that first year after passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, unions only won around 70 percent of the representation elections conducted by the agency.
    • Organized labor opposed the act because it strengthened the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
    • Congress also amended the National Labor Relations Act, as part of the same piece of legislation that created the LMRDA, by tightening the Taft-Hartley Act's prohibitions against secondary boycotts, prohibiting certain types of "hot cargo" agreements, under which an employer agreed to cease doing business with other employers, and empowering the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board to seek an injunction against a union that engages in recognitional picketing of an employer for more than thirty days without filing a petition for representation with the NLRB.
  • National Labor Relations Act

    • The Taft-Hartley Amendment of 1947 is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
    • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
    • Hartley, Jr.
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