29 U.S.C. § 185 : US Code - Section 185: Suits by and against labor organizations

Search 29 U.S.C. § 185 : US Code - Section 185: Suits by and against labor organizations

(a) Venue, amount, and citizenship
Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor
organization representing employees in an industry affecting
commerce as defined in this chapter, or between any such labor
organizations, may be brought in any district court of the United
States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the
amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the
parties.
(b) Responsibility for acts of agent; entity for purposes of suit;
enforcement of money judgments
Any labor organization which represents employees in an industry
affecting commerce as defined in this chapter and any employer
whose activities affect commerce as defined in this chapter shall
be bound by the acts of its agents. Any such labor organization may
sue or be sued as an entity and in behalf of the employees whom it
represents in the courts of the United States. Any money judgment
against a labor organization in a district court of the United
States shall be enforceable only against the organization as an
entity and against its assets, and shall not be enforceable against
any individual member or his assets.
(c) Jurisdiction
For the purposes of actions and proceedings by or against labor
organizations in the district courts of the United States, district
courts shall be deemed to have jurisdiction of a labor organization
(1) in the district in which such organization maintains its
principal office, or (2) in any district in which its duly
authorized officers or agents are engaged in representing or acting
for employee members.
(d) Service of process
The service of summons, subpena, or other legal process of any
court of the United States upon an officer or agent of a labor
organization, in his capacity as such, shall constitute service
upon the labor organization.
(e) Determination of question of agency
For the purposes of this section, in determining whether any
person is acting as an "agent" of another person so as to make such
other person responsible for his acts, the question of whether the
specific acts performed were actually authorized or subsequently
ratified shall not be controlling.