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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations

§ 187. Unlawful activities or conduct; right to sue; jurisdiction; limitations; damages

Statutory text

(a)

It shall be unlawful, for the purpose of this section only, in an industry or activity affecting commerce, for any labor organization to engage in any activity or conduct defined as an unfair labor practice in section 158(b)(4) of this title.

(b)

Whoever shall be injured in his business or property by reason or 1 any violation of subsection (a) may sue therefor in any district court of the United States subject to the limitations and provisions of section 185 of this title without respect to the amount in controversy, or in any other court having jurisdiction of the parties, and shall recover the damages by him sustained and the cost of the suit.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. Probably should be “of”.

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. 80–120 · 61 Stat. 136

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 187

    June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title III, § 303, 61 Stat. 158

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title III, § 303, 61 Stat. 158

  2. Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

    Pub. L. 86–257 title VII § 704(e) · 73 Stat. 519

    1. Struck · 29 U.S.C. § 187(a)

      Pub. L. 86–257 struck out provisions which specified particular practices that were unlawful

    2. Inserted · 29 U.S.C. § 187(a)

      Pub. L. 86–257 inserted reference to practices defined in section 158(b)(4) of this title, which section defines the unfair labor practices formerly enumerated in this subsection

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86–257 struck out provisions which specified particular practices that were unlawful, and inserted reference to practices defined in section 158(b)(4) of this title, which section defines the unfair labor practices formerly enumerated in this subsection.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (e) Section 303(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, is amended to read as follows: 29 USC 187. “(a) It shall be unlawful, for the purpose of this section only, in an industry or activity affecting commerce, for any labor organization to engage in any activity or conduct defined as an unfair labor practice in section 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.”

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1959—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86–257 struck out provisions which specified particular practices that were unlawful, and inserted reference to practices defined in section 158(b)(4) of this title, which section defines the unfair labor practices formerly enumerated in this subsection.

Credits

1947–1959 · 2 acts
  1. 1947June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title III, § 303, 61 Stat. 158
  2. 1959Pub. L. 86–257, title VII, § 704(e), , 73 Stat. 545.
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(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title III, § 303, 61 Stat. 158; Pub. L. 86–257, title VII, § 704(e), , 73 Stat. 545.)

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