29 U.S.C. § 141 : US Code - Section 141: Short title; Congressional declaration of purpose and policy

Search 29 U.S.C. § 141 : US Code - Section 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.