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179.135 <br />MINNESOTA STATUTES 2020 10 <br />179.135 PROTECTION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. <br />Subdivision 1. Agreement protected from intervention. No employer holding a valid collective <br />bargaining agreement with any labor organization recognized or certified by the commissioner of mediation <br />services or the National Labor Relations Board as the accredited bargaining representative for the employees <br />or any group of employees of such employer shall be required to enter into negotiations with any other labor <br />organization respecting the employees covered by the existing union agreement, so long as the existing <br />agreement remains in full force and effect in accordance with its terms except where a successor labor <br />organization has been certified as the representative of the employees covered by such agreement by the <br />commissioner of mediation services or the National Labor Relations Board and recognized by the employer. <br />Subd. 2. Prohibition against violation. The violation of the provisions of this section by any officer, <br />business agent, employee or other representative of any labor organization is prohibited. <br />History: 1947 c 593 s 1,2; 1969 c 1129 art 2 s 10; 1987 c 186 s 15 <br />179.14 INJUNCTIONS; TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. <br />When any unfair labor practice is threatened or committed, a suit to enjoin such practice may be <br />maintained in the district court of any county wherein such practice has occurred or is threatened. In any <br />suit to enjoin any of the unfair labor practices set forth in sections 179.11 and 179.12, the provisions of <br />sections 185.02 to 185.19 shall not apply. No court of the state shall have jurisdiction to issue a temporary <br />or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of the violation of sections 179.11 and 179.12, <br />as herein defined, except after hearing the testimony of witnesses in open court, with opportunity for <br />cross-examination, in support of the allegations made under oath, and testimony in opposition thereto, if <br />offered, and except after findings of fact by the court to the effect that the acts set forth in sections 179.11 <br />and 179.12 have been threatened and will be committed unless restrained, or have been committed and will <br />be continued unless restrained. No temporary restraining order maybe issued under the provisions of sections <br />179.01 to 179.17 except upon the testimony of witnesses produced by the applicant in open court and upon <br />a record being kept of such testimony nor unless the temporary restraining order is returnable within seven <br />days from the time it is granted which shall be noted on the order of the court. It shall be the duty of the <br />court to give the trial or hearing of any suits or proceedings arising under this section precedence over all <br />other civil suits which are ready for trial. Failure of the trial court to decide a motion for a temporary injunction <br />within seven days from the date the hearing thereon is concluded shall dissolve any restraining order issued <br />therein without further order of the court. Failure of the trial court to decide any suit brought under this <br />section within 45 days from the date the trial was ended shall dissolve any restraining order or temporary <br />injunction issued therein without further order of the court. <br />History: (4254-34) 1939 c 440 s 14; 1941 c 469 s 5; 1943 c 658 s 1 <br />179.15 VIOLATORS NOT ENTITLED TO BENEFITS OF CERTAIN SECTIONS. <br />Any employer, employee, or labor organization who has violated any of the provisions of sections 179.01 <br />to 179.17 with respect to any labor dispute shall not be entitled to any of the benefits of sections 179.01 to <br />179.17 respecting such labor disputes and such employer, employee, or labor organization shall not be <br />entitled to maintain in any court of this state an action for injunctive relief with respect to any matters growing <br />out of that labor dispute, until good faith use is made of all means available under the laws of the state of <br />Minnesota for the peaceable settlement of the dispute. <br />History: (4254-35) 1939 c 440 s 15; 1986 c 444 <br />Official Publication of the State of Minnesota <br />Revisor of Statutes <br />