Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 15 : Section 17


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 17. Antitrust laws not applicable to labor organizations

      The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of
    commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be
    construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor,
    agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the
    purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted
    for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such
    organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects
    thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be
    held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in
    restraint of trade, under the antitrust laws.



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