§ 1110 Labor Dispute Immunity

Labor Code·California

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This law says that workers can team up to protest or strike for better pay or work conditions, and it's not a crime as long as they don't do anything violent or illegal.

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•Workers can join together to protest or strike without being criminally punished.
•The law only protects peaceful actions—violence or threats are still illegal.
•If one person doing the same thing wouldn’t be a crime, then a group doing it isn’t either.

Example

A group of fast-food workers walk out of their jobs together to demand higher wages.

This law protects them from being arrested just for striking, as long as they don’t break other laws or get violent.

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§ 1110 Labor Dispute Immunity

No agreement, combination, or contract, by or between two or more persons to do or procure to be done, or not to do or procure not to be done, any act in contemplation or furtherance of any trade dispute between employers and employees in the State is criminal, if the same act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime. This chapter does not authorize violence, or threats thereof. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

Last verified: January 9, 2026

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trade dispute criminal violence threats

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Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Labor Code. Section 1110.

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