§ 179. — Injunctions during national emergency; adjustment efforts by parties during injunction period.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 29USC179]
TITLE 29--LABOR
CHAPTER 7--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
SUBCHAPTER III--CONCILIATION OF LABOR DISPUTES; NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
Sec. 179. Injunctions during national emergency; adjustment
efforts by parties during injunction period
(a) Assistance of Service; acceptance of Service's proposed settlement
Whenever a district court has issued an order under section 178 of
this title enjoining acts or practices which imperil or threaten to
imperil the national health or safety, it shall be the duty of the
parties to the labor dispute giving rise to such order to make every
effort to adjust and settle their differences, with the assistance of
the Service created by this chapter. Neither party shall be under any
duty to accept, in whole or in part, any proposal of settlement made by
the Service.
(b) Reconvening of board of inquiry; report by board; contents; secret
ballot of employees by National Labor Relations Board;
certification of results to Attorney General
Upon the issuance of such order, the President shall reconvene the
board of inquiry which has previously reported with respect to the
dispute. At the end of a sixty-day period (unless the dispute has been
settled by that time), the board of inquiry shall report to the
President the current position of the parties and the efforts which have
been made for settlement, and shall include a statement by each party of
its position and a statement of the employer's last offer of settlement.
The President shall make such report available to the public. The
National Labor Relations Board, within the succeeding fifteen days,
shall take a secret ballot of the employees of each employer involved in
the dispute on the question of whether they wish to accept the final
offer of settlement made by their employer as stated by him and shall
certify the results thereof to the Attorney General within five days
thereafter.
(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title II, Sec. 209, 61 Stat. 155.)
