Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations
§ 163. Right to strike preserved
Statutory text
Nothing in this subchapter, except as specifically provided for herein, shall be construed so as either to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike, or to affect the limitations or qualifications on that right.
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. 74–372 § 13 · 49 Stat. 449
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 163
July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 13, 49 Stat. 457
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 13, 49 Stat. 457Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 13. limitations Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to interfere Right to strike. with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1947—Act , amended section so as to provide that except as specifically provided for in this subchapter nothing shall interfere with or diminish the right to strike and that nothing was to be construed to affect the limitations or qualifications on the right to strike, thus recognizing that the right to strike is not an unlimited and unqualified right.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1947 Amendment
For effective date of amendment by act , see section 104 of act , set out as a note under section 151 of this title.
Credits
1935–1947 · 2 acts
- 1935July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 13, 49 Stat. 457
- 1947June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.
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(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 13, 49 Stat. 457; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.)