Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure
§ 522. Extortionate picketing; penalty for violation
Statutory text
It shall be unlawful to carry on picketing on or about the premises of any employer for the purpose of, or as part of any conspiracy or in furtherance of any plan or purpose for, the personal profit or enrichment of any individual (except a bona fide increase in wages or other employee benefits) by taking or obtaining any money or other thing of value from such employer against his will or with his consent.
Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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.
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
Pub. L. 86–257 title VI § 602 · 73 Stat. 519
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 522
(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 602, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 539.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 602, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 539.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 602. extortionate picketing (a) It shall be unlawful to carry on picketing on or about the premises of any employer for the purpose of, or as part of any conspiracy or in furtherance of any plan or purpose for, the personal profit or enrichment of any individual (except a bona fide increase in wages or other employee benefits) by taking or obtaining any money or other thing of value from such employer against his will or with his consent. (b) Any person who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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