New Jersey § 34:13b-18

§ 34:13b-18.

It shall be unlawful for any employee or representative of any craft, class or group

of employees of a public utility to institute, participate in or aid in the conduct

of a strike or work stoppage or for a public utility or any officer, agent or representative

thereof to institute, participate in or aid in any lockout until sixty days shall

have elapsed after written notice of intention to institute, participate or aid in

the conduct of a strike or work stoppage or lockout has been served by the employee

or representative intending to institute, participate in or aid in a strike or work

stoppage or the public utility intending to institute, participate in or aid in a

lockout upon the State Board of Mediation 1 and the other party to the dispute. Said notice may be served on or after but not before the termination of the collective

bargaining agreement between the parties and in cases where no such collective bargaining

agreement exists, may be served at or after but not before the expiration of the notice

of desired changes required to be served under the provisions of the act which this

act supplements. 2 During the aforementioned sixty-day period it shall be the duty of all parties to

continue their endeavors in good faith to reach an agreement and said sixty-day period

may be extended by written agreement of the parties, filed with the State Board of

Mediation. 1

Transfer of New Jersey State Board of Mediation and its functions, powers, and duties

to the Department of Labor, see N.J.S.A. § 34:1A-23. 2

N.J.S.A. §§ 34:13B-1 to 34:13B-17.