Taft-Hartley Act: Meaning and Definition of

Taft'-Hart'ley Act"

Pronunciation: (taft'härt'lē), [key]
  1. an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.
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