Section 1 – Findings and Public Policy

Section 1. The general court hereby finds that the distribution of food, fuel, water, electric light and power, gas, and hospital and medical services is essential to the public health and safety and that the settlement of industrial disputes which threaten substantial interruption of such distribution is therefore affected with a public interest; that the […]

Section 3 – Labor Disputes Threatening Distribution of Essential Goods or Services; Procedures for Settlement; Change of Conditions of Labor and Interruption of Work

Section 3. In the event that the secretary of labor and workforce development finds that a labor dispute has not been settled by collective bargaining and imminently threatens a substantial interruption in the production or distribution of essential goods or services, he shall certify such dispute to the governor. The governor shall thereupon conduct such […]

Section 4 – Declarations of Emergency; Emergency Procedures; Unlawful Activities; Labor or Service Without Consent; Termination of Emergency and Arrangements; Restoration of Facilities; Enforcement of Statute

Section 4. (a) Whenever the governor finds that as a result of a labor dispute an interruption of production or distribution has occurred or is imminently threatened which would curtail the availability of essential goods or services to such an extent as to endanger the health or safety of any community and that such dispute […]

Section 5 – Relief Against Violations of Statutes; Injunction

Section 5. (a) No person, other than the commonwealth as provided in subsection (b) hereof and except as provided in subsection (c) of section four, shall be entitled to legal or equitable relief in any court of the commonwealth as a result of a violation of any provision of this chapter. (b) The superior court […]

Section 6 – Partial Invalidity

Section 6. If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.

Section 7 – Employees Subject to Federal Railway Labor Act

Section 7. None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any dispute involving employees who are subject to and protected by the Federal Railway Labor Act.

Section 8 – Fees, Expenses and Facilities for Moderators and Members of Commissions and Boards

Section 8. Any person appointed by the governor to serve as a moderator or as a member of a special commission or as an impartial member of an emergency board or any person selected as an impartial member of an emergency board under the provisions of this act, shall receive a per diem fee of […]