Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 29 : Section 141


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 141. Short title; Congressional declaration of purpose and policy

      (a) This chapter may be cited as the "Labor Management Relations
    Act, 1947".
      (b) Industrial strife which interferes with the normal flow of
    commerce and with the full production of articles and commodities
    for commerce, can be avoided or substantially minimized if
    employers, employees, and labor organizations each recognize under
    law one another's legitimate rights in their relations with each
    other, and above all recognize under law that neither party has any
    right in its relations with any other to engage in acts or
    practices which jeopardize the public health, safety, or interest.
      It is the purpose and policy of this chapter, in order to promote
    the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of
    both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce,
    to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the
    interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to
    protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with
    labor organizations whose activities affect commerce, to define and
    proscribe practices on the part of labor and management which
    affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to
    protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes
    affecting commerce.



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