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Bush administration intervenes in dock dispute

09/10/2002

US president George Bush has invoked a little known Act to get the West Coast ports working again.  Last used by the Nixon adminstration in 1971, the 1947 Taft-Hartley act gives the President authority to seek injunctions against strikes and lockouts that ‘imperil the national health or safety.'

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