**(a) Standards for labor-management relations** The Congress finds that, in the public interest, it continues to be the responsibility of the Federal Government to protect employees’ rights to organize, choose their own representatives, bargain collectively, and otherwise engage in concerted activities for their mutual aid or protection; that the relations between employers and labor organizations and the millions of workers they represent have a substantial impact on the commerce of the Nation; and that in order to accomplish the objective of a free flow of commerce it is essential that labor organizations, employers, and their officials adhere to the highest standards of responsibility and ethical conduct in administering the affairs of their organizations, particularly as they affect labor-management relations.
**(b) Protection of rights of employees and the public** The Congress further finds, from recent investigations in the labor and management fields, that there have been a number of instances of breach of trust, corruption, disregard of the rights of individual employees, and other failures to observe high standards of responsibility and ethical conduct which require further and supplementary legislation that will afford necessary protection of the rights and interests of employees and the public generally as they relate to the activities of labor organizations, employers, labor relations consultants, and their officers and representatives.
**(c) Necessity to eliminate or prevent improper practices** The Congress, therefore, further finds and declares that the enactment of this chapter is necessary to eliminate or prevent improper practices on the part of labor organizations, employers, labor relations consultants, and their officers and representatives whic
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**(a) Standards for labor-management relations** The Congress finds that, in the public interest, it continues to be the responsibility of the Federal Government to protect employees’ rights to organize, choose their own representatives, bargain collectively, and otherwise engage in concerted activities for their mutual aid or protection; that the relations between employers and labor organizations and the millions of workers they represent have a substantial impact on the commerce of the Nation; and that in order to accomplish the objective of a free flow of commerce it is essential that labor organizations, employers, and their officials adhere to the highest standards of responsibility and ethical conduct in administering the affairs of their organizations, particularly as they affect labor-management relations.
**(b) Protection of rights of employees and the public** The Congress further finds, from recent investigations in the labor and management fields, that there have been a number of instances of breach of trust, corruption, disregard of the rights of individual employees, and other failures to observe high standards of responsibility and ethical conduct which require further and supplementary legislation that will afford necessary protection of the rights and interests of employees and the public generally as they relate to the activities of labor organizations, employers, labor relations consultants, and their officers and representatives.
**(c) Necessity to eliminate or prevent improper practices** The Congress, therefore, further finds and declares that the enactment of this chapter is necessary to eliminate or prevent improper practices on the part of labor organizations, employers, labor relations consultants, and their officers and representatives which distort and defeat the policies of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended [[29 U.S.C. 141](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section141&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and the Railway Labor Act, as amended [[45 U.S.C. 151](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section151&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and have the tendency or necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by (1) impairing the efficiency, safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of commerce; (2) occurring in the current of commerce; (3) materially affecting, restraining, or controlling the flow of raw materials or manufactured or processed goods into or from the channels of commerce, or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (4) causing diminution of employment and wages in such volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the market for goods flowing into or from the channels of 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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§ 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
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§ 401. Congressional declaration of findings, pur-
poses, and policy
(a) Standards for labor-management relations
The Congress finds that, in the public interest,
it continues to be the responsibility of the Fed-
eral Government to protect employees’ rights to
organize, choose their own representatives, bar-
gain collectively, and otherwise engage in con-
certed activities for their mutual aid or protec-
tion; that the relations between employers and
labor organizations and the millions of workers
they represent have a substantial impact on the
commerce of the Nation; and that in order to ac-
complish the objective of a free flow of com-
merce it is essential that labor organizations,
employers, and their officials adhere to the
highest standards of responsibility and ethical
conduct in administering the affairs of their or-
ganizations, particularly as they affect labor-
management relations.
(b) Protection of rights of employees and the
public
The Congress further finds, from recent inves-
tigations in the labor and management fields,
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that there have been a number of instances of
breach of trust, corruption, disregard of the
rights of individual employees, and other fail-
ures to observe high standards of responsibility
and ethical conduct which require further and
supplementary legislation that will afford nec-
essary protection of the rights and interests of
employees and the public generally as they re-
late to the activities of labor organizations, em-
ployers, labor relations consultants, and their
officers and representatives.
(c) Necessity to eliminate or prevent improper
practices
The Congress, therefore, further finds and de-
clares that the enactment of this chapter is nec-
essary to eliminate or prevent
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§ 151. Definitions; short title
When used in this chapter and for the purposes
of this chapter—
First. The term ‘‘carrier’’ includes any rail-
road subject to the jurisdiction of the Surface
Transportation Board, any express company
that would have been subject to subtitle IV of
title 49, as of December 31, 1995,,1 and any com-
pany which is directly or indirectly owned or
controlled by or under common control with any
carrier by railroad and which operates any
equipment or facilities or performs any service
(other than trucking service) in connection with
the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation,
transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, stor-
age, and handling of property transported by
railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other in-
dividual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in
the possession of the business of any such ‘‘car-
rier’’: Provided, however, That the term ‘‘carrier’’
shall not include any street, interurban, or sub-
urban electric railway, unless such railway is
operating as a part of a general steam-railroad
system of transportation, but shall not exclude
any part of the general steam-railroad system of
transportation now or hereafter operated by any
other motive power. The Surface Transportation
Board is authorized and directed upon request of
the Mediation Board or upon complaint of any
party interested to determine after hearing
whether any line operated by electric power
falls within the terms of this proviso. The term
‘‘carrier’’ shall not include any company by rea-
son of its being engaged in the mining of coal,
the supplying of coal to a carrier where delivery
is not beyond the mine tipple, and the operation
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of equipment or facilities therefor, or in any of
such activi
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