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A 5 page paper which examines how legislation affected the labor movement, along with a consideration of business management events that took place form the Nixon to the G.W. Bush presidencies. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Gregory, August 2001 -- properly! The labor movement has played a significant role in twentieth-century American history.
Labor unions steadily grew in membership and prestige, and soon its prominence ensured its status as a major player on the American political stage. As a result, a precarious
"love/hate" relationship developed between labor and the White House. The Chief Executive needed to court union members for votes while running for the presidency, and labor needed the support
of the president for key legislation passage, but the two factions frequently found themselves at odds on business management issues. President Franklin D. Roosevelts "New Deal" initiative was quite
labor-friendly, and from the 1930s onward, the American labor movement became firmly allied with the Democratic Party, an alliance which has continued to this day. After FDR, most Republican
political platforms were designed to be "anti-New Deal." There was no Republican that was more "anti-New Deal," i.e., anti-labor, than Richard Nixon (Rung 421). Nixons disdain for domestic
issues was well-known, and was reflected in the tumultuous labor and business management crises which occurred during his five-year tenure. In March 1970, for the first time in the
history of the U.S. Postal Service, there was a walkout in Brooklyn which grew to include over 200,000 of the nearly 750,000 postal employees (Usery and Shiskin PG). When
there was virtually no mail service in the major cities of Detroit, New York and Philadelphia, Nixon was forced to declare a national emergency, and within two weeks, a tentative
agreement was finally reached (Usery and Shiskin PG). In December of 1970, Nixon did attempt to make amends with the American workforce by signing the Occupational Safety and Health
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