29-U.S.C.-142

§142 – Definitions

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Title 29 > Chapter 7 > Subchapter I > Section 142

Details

• Reference: Section 142
• Legend: §142 – Definitions
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

When used in this chapter—

(1) The term industry affecting commerce means any industry or activity in commerce or in which a labor dispute would burden or obstruct commerce or tend to burden or obstruct commerce or the free flow of commerce.

(2) The term strike includes any strike or other concerted stoppage of work by employees (including a stoppage by reason of the expiration of a collective-bargaining agreement) and any concerted slowdown or other concerted interruption of operations by employees.

(3) The terms commerce, labor disputes, employer, employee, labor organization, representative, person, and supervisor shall have the same meaning as when used in subchapter II of this chapter.

(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, §501, 61 Stat. 161.)

References in Text

Subchapter II of this chapter, referred to in par. (3), was in the original the National Labor Relations Act as amended by this Act [29 U.S.C. §151 et seq.].

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