29 USC § 163 - Right to strike preserved

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identifier: "/us/usc/t29/s163"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "29 USC § 163 - Right to strike preserved"
title_number: 29
title_name: "LABOR"
section_number: "163"
section_name: "Right to strike preserved"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 5, 1935, ch. 372, § 13, 49 Stat. 457; June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title I, § 101, 61 Stat. 151.)"
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# § 163. Right to strike preserved

Nothing in this subchapter, except as specifically provided for herein, shall be construed so 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.

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**Source Credit**: (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 , amended section so as to provide that except as specifically provided for in this subchapter 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 , see section 104 of act , set out as a note under .