Labor - 29 USC Section 141

01/19/04

Sec. 141. Short title; Congressional declaration of purpose and
policy

(a) This chapter may be cited as the "Labor Management Relations
Act, 1947".
(b) Industrial strife which interferes with the normal flow of
commerce and with the full production of articles and commodities
for commerce, can be avoided or substantially minimized if
employers, employees, and labor organizations each recognize under
law one another's legitimate rights in their relations with each
other, and above all recognize under law that neither party has any
right in its relations with any other to engage in acts or
practices which jeopardize the public health, safety, or interest.
It is the purpose and policy of this chapter, in order to promote
the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of
both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce,
to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the
interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to
protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with
labor organizations whose activities affect commerce, to define and
proscribe practices on the part of labor and management which
affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to
protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes
affecting commerce.

SHORT TITLE OF 1978 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 95-524, Sec. 6(a), Oct. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 2020, provided
that: "This section [enacting section 175a of this title, amending
sections 173 and 186 of this title, and enacting provisions set out
as notes under section 175a of this title] may be cited as the
'Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978'."
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TECHNOLOGY, AUTOMATION, AND ECONOMIC
PROGRESS
Pub. L. 88-444, Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 462, established the
National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic
Progress, to make a comprehensive and impartial study and make
recommendations from time to time as needed for constructive
action. The Commission was directed to submit a final report of its
findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress by
January 1, 1966, and ceased 30 days after submitting its final
report.

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