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How can the president stop a strike?
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:29:09
Publish Date: 2024-10-08 08:00:00
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Whenever there's a big strike in the news, someone inevitably invokes the phrase "Taft-Hartely Act" when talking about whether or not the president should intervene. But what is Taft-Hartley? How did it come about? And what can it actually do?

Nick chats with Erik Loomis, a professor at the University of Rhode Island and expert on all things labor-related. 

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