labor dispute

A controversy between an employer and his employees as to terms and conditions of the employment. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 369. Any controversy over wages, hours, working conditions, or terms of employment. Anno: 28 ALR2d 297 (involving right to unemployment compensation). For the purposes of the application of the Norris-LaGuardia Act and state anti-injunction laws of a similar nature, any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 546. A labor dispute exists, within the meaning of the Pennsylvania Labor Anti-Injunction Act, where the employees of one plant of the employer, who are on strike following the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement, are picketing another plant of the employer where no labor dispute exists. American Brake Shoe Co. v District Lodge of International Asso. of Machinists, 373 Pa 164, 94 A2d 884, 37 ALR2d 675. See jurisdictional dispute; strike.