It shall be lawful for working men and women to organize themselves into, or carry on labor unions for the purpose of lessening the hours of labor or increasing the wages or bettering the conditions of the members of such organizations; or carry out their legitimate purposes by any lawful means.
RCW 49.36.010
Unions legalized.
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 65 Wash. 2d 827 - Krystad v. Lau (1965)
Most recently applied in Kilb v. FIRST STUDENT TRANSPORTATION, LLC (August 2010)
1919 c 185 s 1; RRS s 7611.
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Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.