What is Yellow-dog contract?
{{Globalize |date=July 2016 |discuss=Talk:Yellow-dog contract#Globalize }} A '''yellow-dog contract''' (a '''yellow-dog clause'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jargondatabase.com/Jargon.aspx?id=795 |title=Yellow Dog Clause |publisher=JargonDatabase.com}}</ref> of a [[contract]], or an '''ironclad oath''') is an agreement between an employer and an employee. The employee agrees not to be a part of a [[trade unions|trade union]]. This was part of a contract which employers and employees signed when employees were hired. In the United States, yellow-dog contracts or yellow-dog clauses were often used by employers to stop the creation of unions. It let employers take [[lawsuit|legal action]] against [[union organizer]]s. In 1932, yellow-dog contracts were [[Law of the United States|made illegal]] in the United States under the Norris-LaGuardia Act.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/CAE/06-01.pdf |title=Coercion, Contract and the Limits of the Market |work=CAE Working Paper #06-01 |first=Kaushik |last=Basu |date=January 2006}}</ref><ref>Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., ''The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933'', (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1957), pp. 238-239</ref> The term '''yellow-dog clause''' can also have another meaning: [[non-compete clause]]s inside of or added to a [[non-disclosure agreement]] to stop an employee from working for other employers in the same industry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/BIGGS.HTM |title=Stephen Biggs |work=Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers |first=James |last=Hague |date=June 2002}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Employment law]] {{stub}}