Texas Labor Code Title 3, Chapter 101 - Labor Organizations

SUBCHAPTER A RIGHTS OF WORKING PERSONS

• Texas Section 101.001 - Right To Organize
  All persons engaged in any kind of labor may associate and form trade unions and other organizations to protect themselves in their personal labor in...
• Texas Section 101.002 - Right To Influence Another Regarding Employment
  (a) A person by peaceful and lawful means may induce or attempt to induce another to: (1) enter or refuse to enter a particular employment;...
• Texas Section 101.003 - Right To Bargain
  A person's inherent right to work and to bargain freely with the person's employer, individually or collectively, for terms of the person's employment may not...

SUBCHAPTER B RIGHT TO WORK

• Texas Section 101.004 - Contract For Withholding Union Dues From Employee's Compensation Void Without Employee's Consent
  A contract that permits or requires the retention of part of an employee's compensation to pay dues or assessments on the employee's part to a...
• Texas Section 101.051 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "labor union" means an incorporated or unincorporated association, group, union, lodge, local, branch, or subordinate organization of a union of working persons...
• Texas Section 101.052 - Denial Of Employment Based On Labor Union Membership Prohibited
  A person may not be denied employment based on membership or nonmembership in a labor union. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff....

SUBCHAPTER C REGULATION OF LABOR UNIONS

• Texas Section 101.053 - Contract Requiring Or Prohibiting Labor Union Membership Void
  A contract is void if it requires that, to work for an employer, employees or applicants for employment: (1) must be or may not be...
• Texas Section 101.101 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Enforcement officer" means the attorney general, district attorney, or county attorney. (2) "Labor organizer" means a person who for a financial...
• Texas Section 101.102 - Legislative Findings; Policy
  (a) The legislature finds that because the activities of labor unions affect the economic conditions of the country and the state by entering into almost...
• Texas Section 101.103 - Liberal Construction
  (a) This subchapter shall be liberally construed to: (1) achieve the purposes provided by Section 101.102; and (2) protect the rights of working persons to...
• Texas Section 101.104 - Method Of Election Of Officers, Agents, Organizers, And Representatives
  (a) An officer, agent, organizer, or representative of a labor union must be elected by secret ballot and by majority vote of the members present...
• Texas Section 101.105 - Annual Election Of Officers, Agents, Organizers, And Representatives
  An election for labor union officers, agents, organizers, and representatives must be held at least once each year, except as provided by Section 101.108. Acts...
• Texas Section 101.106 - Notice Of Election
  Except as provided by Section 101.108, a labor union shall give members at least seven days' notice of an election under Section 101.105. The notice...
• Texas Section 101.107 - Results Of Election
  The results of an election held under Section 101.105 shall be determined and declared by the president and the secretary at the time in the...
• Texas Section 101.108 - Certain Unions Excepted
  Sections 101.104-101.107 do not apply to a union that: (1) under its constitution, bylaws, or other organization rules, held its elections for officers and representatives...
• Texas Section 101.109 - Certain Persons Prohibited From Holding Office
  (a) A person may not serve as a labor union officer or as a labor organizer if the person: (1) is an alien; or (2)...
• Texas Section 101.110 - Labor Organizers; Organizer's Card
  (a) A labor organizer operating in this state must apply in writing for an organizer's card before soliciting members for the organizer's organization. (b) An...
• Texas Section 101.111 - Fee For Privilege To Work Prohibited
  (a) A labor union, a labor organizer, or an officer, member, agent, or representative of a labor union may not collect, receive, or demand, directly...
• Texas Section 101.112 - Excessive Fees Prohibited
  (a) A labor union or an officer, agent, or member of a labor union may not charge or receive initiation fees, dues, fines, or other...
• Texas Section 101.113 - Advance Fees
  (a) On payment in full by an applicant for labor union membership of all initiation fees or dues regularly assessed by the union, the union...
• Texas Section 101.114 - Fee Receipt Required
  A labor organizer or an officer, agent, or member of a labor union may not collect a fee, dues, or other sum in connection with...
• Texas Section 101.115 - Construction Of Fee Restrictions
  Sections 101.111, 101.113, and 101.114 may not be construed as preventing any type of bargaining agreement or limiting the bargaining power of a labor union....
• Texas Section 101.116 - Member In Armed Forces
  A union member who, because of service with the United States armed forces, has been unable to pay any dues or assessment levied by a...
• Texas Section 101.117 - Reasonable Time For Decision On Membership Required
  A labor union may not refuse to give a person desiring membership in the union a reasonable time after obtaining the promise of employment in...
• Texas Section 101.118 - Expulsion Of Member
  (a) A labor union may not expel a union member without: (1) good cause; and (2) a fair and public hearing by and within the...
• Texas Section 101.119 - Records
  (a) Each labor union in this state shall keep accurate books of accounts that: (1) itemize each receipt from any source; (2) itemize each expenditure...
• Texas Section 101.120 - Reports
  A labor union required to file reports with the United States Secretary of Labor under Section 201, Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29...
• Texas Section 101.121 - Civil Penalty
  A labor union that violates a provision of this subchapter is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each violation. The civil...
• Texas Section 101.122 - Enforcement By Civil Process
  (a) A district court has jurisdiction, on the application of the state acting through an enforcement officer, to issue a restraining order, a temporary or...
• Texas Section 101.123 - Offense; Penalty
  (a) A labor union officer or a labor organizer commits an offense if the person violates a provision of this subchapter. (b) An offense under...

SUBCHAPTER D PICKETING

• Texas Section 101.124 - Enforcement Officers
  The attorney general, and each district attorney and county attorney, within the attorney's respective jurisdiction, shall: (1) prosecute all criminal proceedings under this subchapter; and...
• Texas Section 101.151 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "picketing" includes the stationing of a person for an organization to: (1) induce anyone not to enter the premises being picketed; (2)...
• Texas Section 101.152 - Mass Picketing Prohibited
  (a) A person may not engage in any form of picketing activity in which a picket constitutes any character of obstacle to the free ingress...
• Texas Section 101.153 - Use Of Insulting, Threatening, Or Obscene Language Prohibited
  A person may not, by use of insulting, threatening, or obscene language, interfere with or intimidate or seek to interfere with or intimidate another: (1)...
• Texas Section 101.154 - Picketing Intended To Secure Breach Of Labor Agreement Prohibited
  A person may not engage in picketing the purpose of which, directly or indirectly, is to secure the disregard or breach of a valid existing...
• Texas Section 101.155 - Declaration Or Publication Of Continuation Of Enjoined Picketing Prohibited
  A person may not declare or publicize the continued existence of actual or constructive picketing at a point or directed against a premises after a...

SUBCHAPTER E SECONDARY PICKETING

• Texas Section 101.156 - Offense; Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person violates Section 101.152, 101.153, 101.154, or 101.155. Each separate act of violation constitutes a separate offense....
• Texas Section 101.201 - Secondary Picketing Prohibited
  (a) A person may not establish, call, participate in, or aid picketing at or near the premises of an employer with whom a labor dispute...
• Texas Section 101.202 - Offense; Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person violates any provision of this subchapter. (b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable...
• Texas Section 101.203 - Civil Liability
  (a) A person who violates any provision of this subchapter is liable to a person damaged by the violation for the damages resulting from the...
• Texas Section 101.204 - Enforcement
  The state, acting through the attorney general or a district attorney or county attorney, may institute a suit in district court to enjoin a person...

SUBCHAPTER F LIABILITY OF LABOR ORGANIZATION FOR DAMAGES

• Texas Section 101.205 - Venue
  Venue for a suit or cause of action arising under this subchapter is in: (1) the county in which the violation is alleged to have...
• Texas Section 101.251 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Labor organization" means any organization in which employees participate and that exists in whole or in part to deal with one...

SUBCHAPTER G INTERFERENCE WITH RIGHT TO WORK

• Texas Section 101.252 - Liability Of Labor Organization
  A labor organization whose members picket or strike against a person is liable for damages for a loss resulting to the person because of the...
• Texas Section 101.301 - Interference With Right To Work; Liability
  (a) The right of a person to work may not be denied or abridged because of membership or nonmembership in a labor union or other...
• Texas Section 101.302 - Injunctive Relief
  (a) The attorney general or a district or county attorney may bring an action in district court to enjoin a violation of this subchapter. (b)...
• Texas Section 101.303 - Assignment Of District Judge
  Not later than the second day after the receipt of notice of institution of a cause of action under this subchapter, a party to the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016