It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employee individually or in concert with others:

(1) To coerce or intimidate an employee in the enjoyment of the employee’s legal rights, including those guaranteed in § 377-4;
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-7

  • Board: means the Hawaii labor relations board, provided for by sections 26-20, 89-5, and 377-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-1
  • Collective bargaining unit: means all of the employees of one employer (employed within the State), except that where the board has determined and certified that such employees engaged in a single craft, division, department, or plant as provided in section 377-5(b) constitute a separate bargaining unit they shall be so considered. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-1
  • Employee: includes any person, other than an independent contractor, working for another for hire in the State, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-1
  • Employer: means a person who engages the services of an employee, and includes any person acting on behalf of an employer, but shall not include the State or any political subdivision thereof, or any labor organization or anyone acting in behalf of such organization other than when it is acting as an employer in fact. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Secondary boycott: includes combining or conspiring to cause or threaten to cause injury to one with whom no labor dispute exists, whether by:

    (1) Withholding patronage, labor, or other beneficial business intercourse;

    (2) Picketing;

    (3) Refusing to handle, install, use, or work on particular materials, equipment, or supplies; or

    (4) Using any other unlawful means,

    in order to bring one against one's will into a concerted plan to coerce or inflict damage upon another. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-1

  • Unfair labor practice: means any unfair labor practice as defined in §§ 377-6 to 377-8. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 377-1
(2) To coerce, intimidate, or induce any employer to interfere with any of the employer’s employees in the enjoyment of their legal rights, including those guaranteed in § 377-4, or to engage in any practice with regard to the employer’s employees which would constitute an unfair labor practice if undertaken by the employer on the employer’s own initiative;
(3) To violate the terms of a collective bargaining agreement;
(4) To refuse or fail to recognize or accept as conclusive of any issue in any controversy as to employment relations the final determination of the board or of any tribunal of competent jurisdiction;
(5) To cooperate in engaging in, promoting, or inducing picketing (not constituting an exercise of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech), boycotting or any other overt act accompanying a strike unless a majority in a collective bargaining unit of the employees of an employer against whom such acts are primarily directed have voted by secret ballot to call a strike;
(6) To hinder or prevent, by mass picketing, threats, intimidation, force, or coercion of any kind the pursuit of any lawful work or employment, or to obstruct or interfere with entrance to or egress from any place of employment, or to obstruct or interfere with free and uninterrupted use of public roads, streets, highways, railways, airports, or other ways of travel or conveyance;
(7) To engage in a secondary boycott; or to hinder or prevent by threats, intimidation, force, coercion, or sabotage, the obtaining, use, or disposition of materials, equipment, or services; or to combine or conspire to hinder or prevent, by any means whatsoever, the obtaining, use, or disposition of materials, equipment, or service. Nothing herein shall prevent sympathetic strikes in support of those in similar occupations working for other employers in the same craft;
(8) To take unauthorized possession of property of the employer or to engage in any concerted effort to interfere with production except by leaving the premises in an orderly manner for the purpose of going on strike;
(9) To fail to give the notice of intention to strike provided in § 377-12.

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