N.J. Stat. § 2A:15-51

Current through L. 2024, c. 80.

Section 2A:15-51 - Restraining order or interlocutory or permanent injunction in disputes concerning terms or conditions of employment prohibited

No court of the state of New Jersey, nor any judge or judges thereof, shall issue any restraining order or interlocutory or permanent injunction to prohibit any person or persons (as these terms are defined in this article) from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts:

a. Ceasing or refusing to perform any work or to remain in any relation of employment;

b. Becoming or remaining a member of any labor organization or of any organization of employers, regardless of any undertaking or promise hereafter made;

c. Paying or giving to, or withholding from any person or persons any strike or unemployment benefits or insurance or other moneys or things of value;

d. By all lawful means aiding any person or persons in any labor dispute who is or are being proceeded against in, or is or are prosecuting, any action in any court of this state;

e. Giving publicity to the existence of, or the facts involved in, any labor dispute, whether by advertising, speaking, patrolling, picketing, without fraud or violence, or by any other method not involving fraud or violence, and not in violation of any other law of the state of New Jersey;

f. Assembling peaceably to act or to organize to act in promotion of their interests in a labor dispute;

g. Advising or notifying persons of an intention to do any of the acts heretofore specified;

h. Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do any of the acts heretofore specified;

i. Advising, urging, or otherwise causing or inducing without fraud or violence the acts heretofore specified regardless of any undertaking or promise hereafter made;

j. Requiring as a condition of employment that all employees of a particular employer or group of employers shall be members of a particular labor organization.

k. The aforesaid acts are hereby declared, as a matter of public policy of the state of New Jersey, to be lawful and in no wise to constitute a tort or a nuisance.

N.J.S. § 2A:15-51