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[CITE: 29USC157]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                  CHAPTER 7--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS
 
Sec. 157. Right of employees as to organization, collective 
        bargaining, etc.
        
    Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, 
or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through 
representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted 
activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid 
or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all 
of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected 
by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a 
condition of employment as authorized in section 158(a)(3) of this 
title.

(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, Sec. 7, 49 Stat. 452; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, 
title I, Sec. 101, 61 Stat. 140.)


                               Amendments

    1947--Act June 23, 1947, restated rights of employees to bargain 
collectively and inserted provision that they have right to refrain from 
joining in concerted activities with their fellow employees.


                    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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 158, 158a, 175a, 433 of this 
title; title 18 section 1951.