29 U.S.C. § 143
Section 143 · Saving provisions
This is § 502 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 44 court decisions — leading case Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers (1974)
Most recently applied in 216 F. Supp. 2d 712 - Airborne Freight Corp. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 705 (August 2002)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without his consent, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to make the quitting of his labor by an individual employee an illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the performance by an individual employee of such labor or service, without his consent; nor shall the quitting of labor by an employee or employees in good faith because of abnormally dangerous conditions for work at the place of employment of such employee or employees be deemed a strike under this chapter.