Professional strikebreakers; employment, recruitment or furnishing as replacements for employees involved in labor disputes unlawful.
Tucson Code § 11-64
in effectSec. 11-64. Professional strikebreakers; employment, recruitment or furnishing as replacements for employees involved in labor disputes unlawful.
Sec. 11-64(1). Purposes.
(a) The purposes of this section are as follows:
(1) To prohibit the recruitment of professional strikebreakers by persons or agencies not involved in the labor dispute.
(2) To prohibit the employment of professional strikebreakers.
(3) To encourage and promote stable economic development.
(4) To encourage the orderly and peaceful settlement of labor disputes.
(b) It is not the purpose of this section to prohibit an employer from hiring replacements for employees involved in a labor dispute when such replacements are not professional strikebreakers.
Sec. 11-64(2). Definitions.
Labor dispute includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiation, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
Professional strikebreaker means a person who customarily and repeatedly offers himself for employment in the place of an employee involved in a labor dispute. It shall be presumed that a person customarily and repeatedly offers himself for employment in the place of a person involved in a labor dispute when such person shall have three (3) or more times offered to take or has taken employment in the place of persons involved in a labor dispute.
Sec. 11-64(3). Supplying Strikebreakers Prohibited. No person shall recruit, procure, supply or refer any professional strikebreakers for employment in place of any employee involved in a labor dispute. But this subsection shall not be applicable to the Arizona State Employment Service or to referring employment agencies that are duly licensed by the State.
Sec. 11-64(4). Employing Strikebreakers Prohibited. No person involved in a labor dispute shall, directly or indirectly:
(a) Employ in the place of an employee involved in such dispute any professional strikebreakers; nor
(b) Contract or arrange with any other person to recruit, procure, supply or refer professional strikebreakers for employment in such dispute.
Sec. 11-64(5). Notification of Labor Dispute to the Employment Applicants. It is unlawful for any person to employ, recruit, solicit or advertise for employees, or refer persons to employment, in place of employees involved in a labor dispute, without adequate notice to such person, or in such advertisement, that there is a labor dispute at the place at which employment is offered and that the employment offered is in place of employees involved in such labor dispute.
Sec. 11-64(6). Separate Offense. The recruiting, procuring, supplying, referring or employing of each professional strikebreaker shall constitute a separate offense; and each day of employment of a professional strikebreaker shall constitute a separate offense.
Sec. 11-64(7). This section will in no way be construed to apply or interfere with any disputes or strikes that may be in progress at the time of the adoption of this section.
(Ord. No. 2951, § 1, 12-19-66)
Source: City of Tucson, Tucson Code (Charter and General Ordinances) and Unified Development Code (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/tucson/latest/tucson_az/0-0-0-9644Fetched: 10/28/2026