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[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.)
