legal strike

legal strike
A simultaneous cessation or quitting of work by a body of workmen acting in combination for the coercion of their employer in a lawful economic struggle or competition between employer and employee as to the share or division between them of the joint product of labor and capital, hours of work, or working conditions. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 383. As between employees and their union, a strike authorized by the union or its officers empowered to call a strike. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway Co. v Pennsylvania Co. (CC Ohio) 54 F 730 (involving right to strike benefits.)

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