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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 6 — Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters Affecting Employer and Employee

§ 108. Noncompliance with obligations involved in labor disputes or failure to settle by negotiation or arbitration as preventing injunctive relief

Statutory text

No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant who has failed to comply with any obligation imposed by law which is involved in the labor dispute in question, or who has failed to make every reasonable effort to settle such dispute either by negotiation or with the aid of any available governmental machinery of mediation or voluntary arbitration.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 72–90 § 8 · 47 Stat. 70

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 108

    (Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 8, 47 Stat. 72.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 8, 47 Stat. 72.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant who has failed to comply with any obligation imposed by law which is involved in the labor dispute in question, or who has failed to make every reasonable effort to settle such dispute either by negotiation or with the aid of any available governmental machinery of mediation or voluntary arbitration.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 8, 47 Stat. 72.)

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