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MN Stat § 179.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.07 — Labor Dispute Affecting Public Interests; Procedure.

179.07 LABOR DISPUTE AFFECTING PUBLIC INTERESTS; PROCEDURE. If the dispute is in any industry, business, or institution affected with a public interest, which includes, but is not restricted to, any industry, business, or institution engaged in supplying the necessities of life, safety, or health, so that a temporary suspension of its operation would endanger the life, safety, health, or well-being of a substantial number of people of any community, the provisions of section 179.06 shall apply. The commissioner may appoint a fact finding commission composed of three members to conduct a hearing and make a report on the issues involved and the merits of the respective contentions of the parties to the dispute. If the commissioner decides to appoint a commission, the commissioner shall immediately notify the parties to the labor dispute. The members of such commission shall on account of vocations, employment, or affiliations be representatives of employees, employers, and the public, respectively. If and when the commissioner notifies the parties of the decision to appoint a commission, neither party to the dispute shall make any change in the situation affecting the dispute and no strike or lockout shall be instituted until 30 days after the commissioner's notification to the parties. If the commissioner fails to appoint a commission within five days after notification to the parties, this limitation on the parties shall be suspended and inoperative. If the commissioner thereafter appoints a commission, no strike or lockout having been instituted in the meantime, the limitation shall again become operative, but in no case for more than the original 30-day period. The 30-day period may be extended by stipulation of the parties to the labor dispute, which shall be filed with the commissioner. The commission shall meet within five days of its appointment by the commissioner and conduct the hearings which are necessary to render its report on the issues involved and merits of the contentions of the parties. The report of the commission shall be filed with the commissioner not less than five days prior to the end of the 30-day period set forth above or any extension thereof. The commissioner shall provide copies of the report to the parties to the dispute and may make the report public. History:  (4254-27) 1939 c 440 s 7; 1941 c 469 s 2; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 6; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 45 s 3; 1987 c 186 s 15
MN Stat § 179.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.08 — Powers Of Commission Appointed By Commissioner.

179.08 POWERS OF COMMISSION APPOINTED BY COMMISSIONER. (a) The commission appointed by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of section 179.07 shall have the power to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence which relates to any matter involved in any such hearing, and may by its chair administer oaths and affirmations, and may examine witnesses. Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such evidence may be required from any place in the state at any designated place of hearing, but whenever practical hearings shall be held in a county where the labor dispute has arisen or exists. (b) In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued under paragraph (a), the district court of the state for the county where the proceeding is pending or in which the person guilty of such contumacy or refusal to obey is found, or resides, or transacts business, or application by the commission shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the commission, there to produce evidence as so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question, and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof. (c) Any party to or party affected by the dispute may appear before the commission in person or by attorney or by their representative, and shall have the right to offer competent evidence and to be heard on the issues before the report of the commission is made. Any commissioners so appointed shall be paid a per diem allowance not to exceed that established for arbitrators in section 179A.16, subdivision 8, and their necessary expenses while serving. History:  (4254-28) 1939 c 440 s 8; 1941 c 469 s 3; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 7; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 45 s 4; 1987 c 186 s 15
MN Stat § 179.083 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.083 — Jurisdictional Controversies.

179.083 JURISDICTIONAL CONTROVERSIES. Whenever two or more labor organizations adversely claim for themselves or their members jurisdiction over certain classifications of work to be done for any employer or in any industry, or over the persons engaged in or performing such work and such jurisdictional interference or dispute is made the ground for picketing an employer or declaring a strike or boycott against the employer, the commissioner may appoint a labor referee to hear and determine the jurisdictional controversy. If the labor organizations involved in the controversy have an agreement between themselves defining their respective jurisdictions, or if they are affiliated with the same labor federation or organization which has by the charters granted to the contending organizations limited their jurisdiction, the labor referee shall determine the controversy in accordance with the proper construction of the agreement or of the provisions of the charters of the contending organizations. If there is no agreement or charter which governs the controversy, the labor referee shall make such decision as, in consideration of past history of the organization, harmonious operation of the industry, and most effective representation for collective bargaining, will best promote industrial peace. If the labor organizations involved in the controversy so desire, they may submit the controversy to a tribunal of the federation or labor organization which has granted their charters or to arbitration before a tribunal selected by themselves, provided the controversy is so submitted prior to the appointment by the governor of a labor referee to act in the controversy. After the appointment of the labor referee by the governor, or the submission of the controversy to another tribunal as herein provided, it shall be unlawful for any person or labor organization to call or conduct a strike or boycott against the employer or industry or to picket any place of business of the employer or in the industry on account of such jurisdictional controversy. History:  1943 c 624 s 6; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 8; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 45 s 5; 1987 c 186 s 15
MN Stat § 179.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.09 — Arbitration.

179.09 ARBITRATION. When a labor dispute arises which is not settled by mediation such dispute may, by written agreement of the parties, be submitted to arbitration on such terms as the parties may specify, including among other methods the arbitration procedure under the terms of sections 572B.01 to 572B.31 and arbitration under the Voluntary Industrial Arbitration Tribunal of the American Arbitration Association. If such agreement so provides, the commissioner of mediation services may act as a member of any arbitration tribunal created by any such agreement and, if the agreement so provides, the commissioner may appoint one or more of such arbitrators. Either or both of the parties to any such agreement or any arbitration tribunal created under any such agreement may apply to the commissioner to have the tribunal designated as a temporary arbitration tribunal and, if so designated, the temporary arbitration tribunal shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses and to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence, which subpoenas shall be enforced in the same manner as subpoenas issued by the commission under section 179.08. Any such temporary arbitration tribunal shall file with the commissioner a copy of its report, duly certified by its chair. History:  (4254-29) 1939 c 440 s 9; 1957 c 633 s 24; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 9; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 186 s 15; 2010 c 264 art 2 s 4
MN Stat § 179.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.10 — Joining Labor Organizations; Uniting For Collective Bargaining.

179.10 JOINING LABOR ORGANIZATIONS; UNITING FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Subdivision 1. Employees' right of self-organization. Employees shall have the right of self-organization and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; and such employees shall have the right to refrain from any and all such activities. Subd. 2. Employers associations. Employers have the right to associate together for the purpose of collective bargaining. History:  (4254-30) 1939 c 440 s 10; 1941 c 469 s 4
MN Stat § 179.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.12 — Employers' Unfair Labor Practices.

179.12 EMPLOYERS' UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES. It is an unfair labor practice for an employer: (1) to institute a lockout of its employees in violation of a valid collective bargaining agreement between the employer and its employees or labor organization if the employees at the time are in good faith complying with the provisions of the agreement, or to violate the terms and conditions of the bargaining agreement; (2) to institute a lockout of its employees in violation of section 179.06 or 179.07; (3) to encourage or discourage membership in a labor organization by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any terms or conditions of employment; provided, that this clause does not apply to the provisions of collective bargaining agreements entered into voluntarily by an employer and its employees or a labor organization representing the employees as a bargaining agent, as provided by section 179.16; (4) to discharge or otherwise to discriminate against an employee because the employee has signed or filed an affidavit, petition, or complaint or given information or testimony under this chapter; (5) to spy directly or through agents or any other persons upon activities of employees or their representatives in the exercise of their legal rights; (6) to distribute or circulate a blacklist of individuals exercising a legal right or of members of a labor organization for the purpose of preventing individuals who are blacklisted from obtaining or retaining employment; (7) to engage or contract for the services of a person who is an employee of another if the employee is paid a wage that is less than the wage to be paid by the engaging or contracting employer under an existing union contract for work of the same grade or classification; (8) willfully and knowingly to utilize a professional strikebreaker to replace an employee or employees involved in a strike or lockout at a place of business located within this state; or (9) to grant or offer to grant the status of permanent replacement employee to a person for performing bargaining unit work for an employer during a lockout of employees in a labor organization or during a strike of employees in a labor organization authorized by a representative of employees. The violation of clause (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), or (9) is an unlawful act. History: (4254-32) 1939 c 440 s 12; 1941 c 469 s 8; 1955 c 669 s 1; 1973 c 149 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 239 s 1; 1999 c 86 art 1 s 44 NOTE: Clause (9) was preempted under federal law by Midwest Motor Express Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Local 120, 512 N.W.2d 881 (Minn. 1994).
MN Stat § 179.121 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.121 — Operation Of Vehicle Where Dispute Is In Progress.

179.121 OPERATION OF VEHICLE WHERE DISPUTE IS IN PROGRESS. Any person who operates a motor vehicle which is entering or leaving a place of business or employment where there is a clear notice that a labor dispute is in progress, and who fails to bring the vehicle to a full stop at the entrance to or exit from that place, or who fails to exercise caution in entering or leaving that place, is guilty of a misdemeanor. History:   1979 c 331 s 1
MN Stat § 179.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.13 — Interferences Which Are Unlawful.

179.13 INTERFERENCES WHICH ARE UNLAWFUL. Subdivision 1. Unlawful acts. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to interfere with the free and uninterrupted use of public roads, streets, highways or methods of transportation or conveyance or to wrongfully obstruct ingress to and egress from any place of business or employment. Subd. 2. Unfair labor practice. It is an unfair labor practice for any employee or labor organization to commit an unlawful act as defined in subdivision 1. History:  (4254-33) 1939 c 440 s 13; 1943 c 624 s 4
MN Stat § 179.135 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.135 — Protection Of Collective Bargaining Agreements.

179.135 PROTECTION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. Subdivision 1. Agreement protected from intervention. No employer holding a valid collective bargaining agreement with any labor organization recognized or certified by the commissioner of mediation services or the National Labor Relations Board as the accredited bargaining representative for the employees or any group of employees of such employer shall be required to enter into negotiations with any other labor organization respecting the employees covered by the existing union agreement, so long as the existing agreement remains in full force and effect in accordance with its terms except where a successor labor organization has been certified as the representative of the employees covered by such agreement by the commissioner of mediation services or the National Labor Relations Board and recognized by the employer. Subd. 2. Prohibition against violation. The violation of the provisions of this section by any officer, business agent, employee or other representative of any labor organization is prohibited. History:  1947 c 593 s 1,2; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 10; 1987 c 186 s 15
MN Stat § 179.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.14 — Injunctions; Temporary Restraining Orders.

179.14 INJUNCTIONS; TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. When any unfair labor practice is threatened or committed, a suit to enjoin such practice may be maintained in the district court of any county wherein such practice has occurred or is threatened. In any suit to enjoin any of the unfair labor practices set forth in sections 179.11 and 179.12, the provisions of sections 185.02 to 185.19 shall not apply. No court of the state shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of the violation of sections 179.11 and 179.12, as herein defined, except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open court, with opportunity for cross-examination, in support of the allegations made under oath, and testimony in opposition thereto, if offered, and except after findings of fact by the court to the effect that the acts set forth in sections 179.11 and 179.12 have been threatened and will be committed unless restrained, or have been committed and will be continued unless restrained. No temporary restraining order may be issued under the provisions of sections 179.01 to 179.17 except upon the testimony of witnesses produced by the applicant in open court and upon a record being kept of such testimony nor unless the temporary restraining order is returnable within seven days from the time it is granted which shall be noted on the order of the court. It shall be the duty of the court to give the trial or hearing of any suits or proceedings arising under this section precedence over all other civil suits which are ready for trial. Failure of the trial court to decide a motion for a temporary injunction within seven days from the date the hearing thereon is concluded shall dissolve any restraining order issued therein without further order of the court. Failure of the trial court to decide any suit brought under this section within 45 days from the date the trial was ended shall dissolve any restraining order or temporary injunction issued therein without further order of the court. History:  (4254-34) 1939 c 440 s 14; 1941 c 469 s 5; 1943 c 658 s 1
MN Stat § 179.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.15 — Violators Not Entitled To Benefits Of Certain Sections.

179.15 VIOLATORS NOT ENTITLED TO BENEFITS OF CERTAIN SECTIONS. Any employer, employee, or labor organization who has violated any of the provisions of sections 179.01 to 179.17 with respect to any labor dispute shall not be entitled to any of the benefits of sections 179.01 to 179.17 respecting such labor disputes and such employer, employee, or labor organization shall not be entitled to maintain in any court of this state an action for injunctive relief with respect to any matters growing out of that labor dispute, until good faith use is made of all means available under the laws of the state of Minnesota for the peaceable settlement of the dispute. History:  (4254-35) 1939 c 440 s 15; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 179.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.17 — Citation, Labor Relations Act.

179.17 CITATION, LABOR RELATIONS ACT. Sections 179.01 to 179.17 may be cited as the Minnesota Labor Relations Act. History:   1939 c 440 s 19
MN Stat § 179.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.18 — Definitions; Minnesota Labor Union Democracy Act.

179.18 DEFINITIONS; MINNESOTA LABOR UNION DEMOCRACY ACT. Subdivision 1. Persons. "Persons" includes individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, trustees, and receivers. Subd. 2. Labor organization. "Labor organization" means any organization of employees or of persons seeking employment which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances or terms or conditions of employment, but shall not include any labor organization subject to the Federal Railway Labor Act, as amended from time to time. Subd. 3. Employer. "Employer" includes all persons employing others and all persons acting in the interest of an employer, but does not include the state or any political or governmental subdivision thereof, nor any person subject to the Federal Railway Labor Act, as amended from time to time. Subd. 4. Employee. "Employee" includes, in addition to the accepted definition of the word, any employee whose work has ceased because of any unfair labor practice as defined in section 179.12 on the part of the employer or because of any current labor dispute and who has not obtained other regular and substantially equivalent employment, but does not include any individuals employed in agricultural labor or by a parent or spouse or in domestic service of any person at the person's own home. Subd. 5. Representative of employees. "Representative of employees" means any person acting or asserting the right to act for employees or persons seeking employment in collective bargaining or dealing with employers concerning grievances or terms or conditions of employments. Subd. 6. Competent evidence. "Competent evidence" means evidence admissible in a court of equity and such other evidence other than hearsay as is relevant and material to the issue and is of such character that it would be accepted by reasonable persons as worthy of belief. History:  1943 c 625 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 179.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.19 — Election Of Officers Of Labor Organization.

179.19 ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF LABOR ORGANIZATION. The officers of every labor organization shall be elected for such terms, not exceeding four years, as the constitution or bylaws may provide. The election shall be by secret ballot. The constitution or bylaws may provide for multiple choice voting, nomination by primaries or runoff elections, or other method of election by which selection by a majority may be obtained. In the absence of such provision, the candidate for any office receiving the largest number of votes cast for that office shall be declared elected. It is the duty of every labor organization and the officers thereof to hold an election for the purpose of electing the successor of every such officer prior to the expiration of a term. Any employee who is elected to a full time position in a labor organization shall be given a leave of absence for the duration of time holding such office, without losing seniority or entitlement to any rights acquired as a result of employment. History:  1943 c 625 s 2; 1969 c 853 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 179.20 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.20 — Notice Of Elections Given.

179.20 NOTICE OF ELECTIONS GIVEN. Subdivision 1. Publication. No election required hereunder shall be valid unless reasonable notice thereof shall have been given to all persons eligible to vote thereat. Proof of publication of notice of an election in a trade union paper of general circulation among the membership of the union holding such election shall be conclusive proof of reasonable notice as required in this subdivision. Subd. 2. Plurality required. No result of an election required hereunder shall be valid unless a plurality of the eligible persons voting thereat shall have cast their votes by secret ballot in favor of such result. History:   1943 c 625 s 3
MN Stat § 179.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.21 — Reports Of Receipts And Disbursements.

179.21 REPORTS OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. It is hereby made the duty of the officer of every labor organization who is charged with responsibility of money and property thereof to furnish to the members thereof in good standing a statement of the receipts and disbursements of the labor organization from the date of the next preceding statement and the assets and liabilities thereof to the date of the current statement. Such statement shall be furnished by such officer at the time prescribed by the constitution or laws of the labor organization, or it shall be furnished not later than the 1st day of July next following such calendar year. History:   1943 c 625 s 4
MN Stat § 179.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 175 - 186 — Labor, Industry|Chapter 179 — Labor Relations|Section 179.22 — Labor Referee.

179.22 LABOR REFEREE. The commissioner may from time to time appoint labor referees for particular disputes under sections 179.18 to 179.25. Such appointment shall be for the duration only of the particular dispute. Such labor referees shall be paid a per diem allowance not to exceed that established for arbitrators in section 179A.16, subdivision 8, while so engaged, and their necessary expenses. When approved by the commissioner, the commissioner shall cause to be paid, from the appropriation to the commissioner, the amount due to the labor referees for services and expenses. History:  1943 c 625 s 5; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 13; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 45 s 6; 1987 c 186 s 15