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29 U.S.C. § 185 — Suits by and against labor organizations
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**(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 cons
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**(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.
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**(a)** It shall be unlawful, for the purpose of this section only, in an industry or activity affecting commerce, for any labor organization to engage in any activity or conduct defined as an unfair labor practice in [section 158(b)(4) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section158/b/4&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b)** Whoever shall be injured in his business or property by reason or 11 So in original. Probably should be “of”. any violation of subsection (a) may sue therefor in any district court of the United States subject to the limitations and provisions of [section 185 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section185&num=0&edition=prelim) without respect to the amount in controversy, or in any other court having jurisdiction of the parties, and shall recover the damages by him sustained and the cost of the suit.
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**(a) Contractor employees**
(1) Privatization shall not diminish the accrued, vested pension benefits of employees of the Corporation’s operating contractor at the two gaseous diffusion plants.
(2) In the event that the private corporation terminates or changes the contractor at either or both of the gaseous diffusion plants, the plan sponsor or other appropriate fiduciary of the pension plan covering employees of the prior operating contractor shall arrange for the transfer of all plan assets and liabilities relating to accrued pension benefits of such plan’s participants and beneficiaries from such plant to a pension plan sponsored by the new contractor or the private corporation or a joint labor-management plan, as the case may be.
(3) In addition to any obligations arising under the National Labor Relations Act ([29 U.S.C. 151](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section151&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), any employer (including the private corporation if it operates a gaseous diffusion plant without a contractor or any contractor of the private corporation) at a gaseous diffusion plant shall—
(A) abide by the terms of any unexpired collective bargaining agreement covering employees in bargaining units at the plant and in effect on the privatization date until the stated expiration or termination date of the agreement; or
(B) in the event a collective bargaining agreement is not in effect upon the privatization date, have the same bargaining obligations under section 8(d) of the National Labor Relations Act ([29 U.S.C. 158(d)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section158/d&num=0&edition=prelim)) as it had immediately before the privatization date.
(4) If the private corporation replaces i
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TITLE 29—LABOR
§ 185
peaceful and just settlement of the dispute.
Each such Board shall be composed of such num-
ber of individuals as the Director may deem de-
sirable. No member appointed under this section
shall have any interest or involvement in the
health care institutions or the employee organi-
zations involved in the dispute.
(b) Compensation of members of Boards of In-
quiry
(1) Members of any board established under
this section who are otherwise employed by the
Federal Government shall serve without com-
pensation but shall be reimbursed for travel,
subsistence, and other necessary expenses in-
curred by them in carrying out its duties under
this section.
(2) Members of any board established under
this section who are not subject to paragraph (1)
shall receive compensation at a rate prescribed
by the Director but not to exceed the daily rate
prescribed for GS–18 of the General Schedule
under section 5332 of title 5, including travel for
each day they are engaged in the performance of
their duties under this section and shall be enti-
tled to reimbursement for travel, subsistence,
and other necessary expenses incurred by them
in carrying out their duties under this section.
(c) Maintenance of status quo
After the establishment of a board under sub-
section (a) of this section and for 15 days after
any such board has issued its report, no change
in the status quo in effect prior to the expira-
tion of the contract in the case of negotiations
for a contract renewal, or in effect prior to the
time of the impasse in the case of an initial bar-
gaining negotiation, except by agreement, shall
be made by the parties to the controversy.
(d) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be
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