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primary strike

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 394 U.S. 369 - Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · 1969Most cited · 1,255 citing opinions

The protected primary strike 'is aimed at applying economic pressure by halting the day-to-day operations of the struck employer.

How often courts cite the cases defining “primary strike”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “primary strike” — 1,500 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1964–1969

  1. The primary strike, which is protected by the proviso, is aimed at applying economic pressure by halting the day-to-day operations of the struck employer.