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[CITE: 29USC142]

 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                  CHAPTER 7--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 142. Definitions

    When used in this chapter--
        (1) The term ``industry affecting commerce'' means any industry 
    or activity in commerce or in which a labor dispute would burden or 
    obstruct commerce or tend to burden or obstruct commerce or the free 
    flow of commerce.
        (2) The term ``strike'' includes any strike or other concerted 
    stoppage of work by employees (including a stoppage by reason of the 
    expiration of a collective-bargaining agreement) and any concerted 
    slowdown or other concerted interruption of operations by employees.
        (3) The terms ``commerce'', ``labor disputes'', ``employer'', 
    ``employee'', ``labor organization'', ``representative'', 
    ``person'', and ``supervisor'' shall have the same meaning as when 
    used in subchapter II of this chapter.

(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title V, Sec. 501, 61 Stat. 161.)

                       References in Text

    Subchapter II of this chapter, referred to in par. (3), was in the 
original ``the National Labor Relations Act as amended by this Act'' [29 
U.S.C. Sec. 151 et seq.].

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2611 of this title; title 7 
section 2015.
