Oregon Statutes 663.140 – Encouraging certain strikes; refusals to handle products
It is an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents to engage in, or to induce or encourage any individual employed by any person to engage in, a strike or a refusal in the course of employment to use, manufacture, process, transport or otherwise handle or work on any goods, articles, materials or commodities or to perform any services; or to threaten, coerce or restrain any person, where in either case an object thereof is forcing or requiring:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 663.140
- Board: means the Employment Relations Board. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
- Conciliator: means the head of the State Conciliation Service. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
- Employer: includes any person acting as an agent of an employer, directly or indirectly, but does not include:
(a) The United States or any wholly owned government corporation, or any Federal Reserve Bank. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
- Labor organization: means an organization of any kind, or an agency or an employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Representative: includes an individual or labor organization. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
- Unfair labor practice: means any unfair labor practice listed in ORS § 663. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
(1) An employer or self-employed person to join a labor or employer organization or to enter into an agreement that is prohibited by ORS § 663.155;
(2) A person to cease using, selling, handling, transporting or otherwise dealing in the products of any other producer, processor or manufacturer, or to cease doing business with any other person, or forcing or requiring any other employer to recognize or bargain with a labor organization as the representative of employees of the employer unless such labor organization has been certified as the elected representative of such employees. However, nothing in this subsection makes unlawful, where not otherwise unlawful, any primary strike or primary picketing;
(3) An employer to recognize or bargain with a particular labor organization as the representative of employees of the employer if another labor organization has been certified as the elected representative of such employees; or
(4) An employer to assign particular work to employees in a particular labor organization or in a particular trade, craft or class rather than to employees in another labor organization or in another trade, craft or class, unless the employer is failing to conform to an order of the Employment Relations Board or certification of the conciliator determining the bargaining representative for employees performing the work. [1971 c.729 § 11; 2005 c.22 § 473]