Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73
§524a Elimination of racketeering activities threat; State legislation governing collective bargaining representative
Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 11— - LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE PROCEDURE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 524a
Summary
Each State may make and enforce a law to stop widespread organized crime in an industry. The law can apply equally to employers, workers, and union reps and decide who may hold any local union position under the National Labor Relations Act.
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Title 29, §524a
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Notwithstanding this or any other Act regulating labor-management relations, each State shall have the authority to enact and enforce, as part of a comprehensive statutory system to eliminate the threat of pervasive racketeering activity in an industry that is, or over time has been, affected by such activity, a provision of law that applies equally to employers, employees, and collective bargaining representatives, which provision of law governs service in any position in a local labor organization which acts or seeks to act in that State as a collective bargaining representative pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act [29 U.S.C. 151 et seq.], in the industry that is subject to that program.
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This Act, referred to in text, probably means title II of Pub. L. 98–473, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1976, known as the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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of 1984 Amendment note set out under section 1 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and Tables. The National Labor Relations Act, referred to in text, is act July 5, 1935, ch. 372, 49 Stat. 449, which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 151 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 167 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, which comprises this chapter.
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29 U.S.C. § 524a
Title 29 — Labor
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Apr 6, 2026
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