Williams Press, Inc. v. Albany Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union Twenty-Three

The sole issue presented npon this motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendant labor union from striking is the applicability of section 807 of the Labor Law. The appropriateness and necessity of injunctive relief is found to be established, and is not seriously controverted.

Section 807 is applicable by its terms only when a labor dispute exists. Our courts have consistently refused to consider a strike during the existence of a collective bargaining agreement containing a “ no strike clause ” as a labor dispute within the meaning of section 807. (See, Strecher-Traung v.…