Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations
§ 142. Definitions
Statutory text
When used in this chapter—
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pub. L. 80–120 · 61 Stat. 136
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 142
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, § 501, 61 Stat. 161.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, § 501, 61 Stat. 161.)
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Editorial Notes
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.].
Credits
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, § 501, 61 Stat. 161.)