After the Taft-Hartley Act public attention turned to a new issue that was increasingly making headlines due to a lengthy series of Congressional hearings held by the McClellan committee which focused on union corruption and racketeering. Extensive testimony documented alleged cases of kickbacks, pension fraud, intimidation of dissident members by union officials and undemocratic or fraudulent elections for union offices. While the bulk of the testimony focused on a handful of unions most notably the Teamsters union the hearings provided the impetus for general legislation to correct or prevent such abuses. This legislation was the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, commonly referred to as the Landrum-Griffin Act.
The Landrum-Griffin Act was an amendment to the original Wagner Act.
No comments:
Post a Comment