United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territo ...

labor law Labour laws (also known as labor laws or employment laws) are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government. Collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, ...

, a jurisdictional strike is a concerted refusal to work undertaken by a

union Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''U ...

to assert its members' right to particular job assignments and to protest the assignment of disputed work to members of another union or to unorganized workers. (

Labor unions A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

use the term ''jurisdiction'' to refer to their claims to represent workers who perform a certain type of work and the right of their members to perform such work.) The Taft-Hartley amendments to the

National Labor Relations Act The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, an ...

empowered the

National Labor Relations Board The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States with responsibilities for enforcing U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices. Under the Natio ...

to resolve such jurisdictional disputes and authorized the General Counsel of the NLRB to seek an

injunction An injunction is a legal and equitable remedy in the form of a special court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts. ("The court of appeals ... has exclusive jurisdiction to enjoin, set aside, suspend (in whole or in ...

barring such strikes.Cox, Archibald; Bok, Derek Curtis; Gorman, Robert A.; et al. ''Labor Law: Cases and Materials.'' 13th ed. New York: Foundation Press, 2001. ; Raza, M. Ali and Anderson, A. Janell. ''Labor Relations and the Law.'' Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1996. Jurisdictional strikes occur most frequently in the United States in the construction industry. Construction unions frequently resolve those disputes through a privately created adjustment system.Palladino, Grace. ''Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century Of Building Trades History.'' Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2007. In other countries, jurisdiction strikes are often called demarcation disputes.

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