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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure

§ 529. Prohibition on certain discipline by labor organization

Statutory text

It shall be unlawful for any labor organization, or any officer, agent, shop steward, or other representative of a labor organization, or any employee thereof to fine, suspend, expel, or otherwise discipline any of its members for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this chapter. The provisions of section 412 of this title shall be applicable in the enforcement of this section.

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. Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

    Pub. L. 86–257 title VI § 609 · 73 Stat. 519

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 529

    (Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 609, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 609, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 609. prohibition on certain discipline by labor organization It shall be unlawful for any labor organization, or any officer, agent, shop steward, or other representative of a labor organization, or any employee thereof to fine, suspend, expel, or otherwise discipline any of its members for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this Act. The provisions of section 102 shall be applicable in the enforcement of this section.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 609, , 73 Stat. 541.)

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