Should yellow dog contracts be legal?

[nickshepDEM]

Poll question: Should yellow dog contracts be legal?

A yellow dog contract is an employment contract in which a worker agrees not to join a labor union while employed. It has been illegal in the U.S. since the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932.

[pnorman]

1. Here's a fuller definition of that phrase:

Yellow-Dog Contract

agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to join a union during the course of his employment. Such contracts, used most widely in the United States in the 1920s, enabled employers to take legal action against union organizers for encouraging workers to break these contracts. A federal law prohibiting the use of yellow-dog contracts on the railroads (Erdman Act of 1898) was struck down by the Supreme Court as an unconstitutional infringement upon the freedom of contract (Adair v. The United States, 1908). In 1932, in accordance with the new philosophy that the government should not interfere with workers' right to organize, the Norris-LaGuardia Act made yellow-dog contracts unenforceable in the federal courts.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077900


pnorman
PS: I vote NO!!!

[unkachuck]

2. it's a shame....

....to even think we would have to worry about the return of such backward practices....the answer is NO....

....although, I would be in favor of gun-owners agreeing not to join the NRA in order to purchase a firearm or a Christian agreeing not to join the religious-right in order to pray....