right to strike
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 240 - National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · 1939Most cited · 915 citing opinions
this recognition of 'the right to strike' plainly contemplates a lawful strike,—the exercise of the unquestioned right to quit work.
How often courts cite the cases defining “right to strike”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “right to strike” — 1,477 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 · 1939–1949
Neither the common law, nor the Fourteenth Amendment, confers the absolute right to strike.