**(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.
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**(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.
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Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
§ 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 pro-
duction of articles and commodities for com-
merce, can be avoided or substantially mini-
mized if employers, employees, and labor organi-
zations 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 employ-
ees and employers in their relations affecting
commerce, to provide orderly and peaceful pro-
cedures for preventing the interference by either
with the legitimate rights of the other, to pro-
tect the rights of individual employees in their
relations with labor organizations whose activi-
ties 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 affect-
ing commerce.
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, § 1, 61 Stat. 136.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ‘‘This Act’’ meaning act June 23, 1947, ch. 120,
61 Stat. 136, which is classified principally to this sub-
chapter and subchapters III (§ 171 et seq.) and IV (§ 185
et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of
this act to the Code, see Tables.
Statutory Notes an