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29 U.S.C. § 164 — Construction of provisions
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**(a) Supervisors as union members** Nothing herein shall prohibit any individual employed as a supervisor from becoming or remaining a member of a labor organization, but no employer subject to this subchapter shall be compelled to deem individuals defined herein as supervisors as employees for the purpose of any law, either national or local, relating to collective bargaining.
**(b) Agreements requiring union membership in violation of State law** Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law.
**(c) Power of Board to decline jurisdiction of labor disputes; assertion of jurisdiction by State and Territorial courts**
(1) The Board, in its discretion, may, by rule of decision or by published rules adopted pursuant to subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, decline to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute involving any class or category of employers, where, in the opinion of the Board, the effect of such labor dispute on commerce is not sufficiently substantial to warrant the exercise of its jurisdiction: Provided, That the Board shall not decline to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute over which it would assert jurisdiction under the standards prevailing upon August 1, 1959.
(2) Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to prevent or bar any agency or the courts of any State or Territory (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands), from assuming and asserting jurisdiction over labor disputes over which the Board declines, pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, to assert jurisdiction.
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**(a) Supervisors as union members** Nothing herein shall prohibit any individual employed as a supervisor from becoming or remaining a member of a labor organization, but no employer subject to this subchapter shall be compelled to deem individuals defined herein as supervisors as employees for the purpose of any law, either national or local, relating to collective bargaining.
**(b) Agreements requiring union membership in violation of State law** Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law.
**(c) Power of Board to decline jurisdiction of labor disputes; assertion of jurisdiction by State and Territorial courts**
(1) The Board, in its discretion, may, by rule of decision or by published rules adopted pursuant to subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, decline to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute involving any class or category of employers, where, in the opinion of the Board, the effect of such labor dispute on commerce is not sufficiently substantial to warrant the exercise of its jurisdiction: Provided, That the Board shall not decline to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute over which it would assert jurisdiction under the standards prevailing upon August 1, 1959.
(2) Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to prevent or bar any agency or the courts of any State or Territory (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands), from assuming and asserting jurisdiction over labor disputes over which the Board declines, pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, to assert jurisdiction.
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The denial by some employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by some employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency, safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of commerce; (b) occurring in the current of commerce; (c) materially affecting, restraining, or controlling the flow of raw materials or manufactured or processed goods from or into the channels of commerce, or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (d) causing diminution of employment and wages in such volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the market for goods flowing from or into the channels of commerce.
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Wherever the application of the provisions of section 272 of chapter 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto (U.S.C., title 11, sec. 672), conflicts with the application of the provisions of this subchapter, this subchapter shall prevail: Provided, That in any situation where the provisions of this subchapter cannot be validly enforced, the provisions of such other Acts shall remain in full force and effect.
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TITLE 29—LABOR
§ 166
as either to interfere with or impede or diminish
in any way the right to strike, or to affect the
limitations or qualifications on that right.
(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 13, 49 Stat. 457; June 23,
1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1947—Act June 23, 1947, amended section so as to pro-
vide that except as specifically provided for in this sub-
chapter nothing shall interfere with or diminish the
right to strike and that nothing was to be construed to
affect the limitations or qualifications on the right to
strike, thus recognizing that the right to strike is not
an unlimited and unqualified right.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1947 AMENDMENT
For effective date of amendment by act June 23, 1947,
see section 104 of act June 23, 1947, set out as a note
under section 151 of this title.
§ 164. Construction of provisions
(a) Supervisors as union members
Nothing herein shall prohibit any individual
employed as a supervisor from becoming or re-
maining a member of a labor organization, but
no employer subject to this subchapter shall be
compelled to deem individuals defined herein as
supervisors as employees for the purpose of any
law, either national or local, relating to collec-
tive bargaining.
(b) Agreements requiring union membership in
violation of State law
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed
as authorizing the execution or application of
agreements requiring membership in a labor or-
ganization as a condition of employment in any
State or Territory in which such execution or
application is prohibited by State or Territorial
law.
(c) Power of Board to decline jurisdiction of
labor disputes; assertion of jurisdiction by
State and Territ
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