SECTION 157

(1) Any dispute which is characterized by : (a) The intervention of a group of wage-earning workers, whether or not the said workers are organized in trade unions, and (b) The collective nature of the interests at stake shall be deemed to be a collective labour dispute and shall therefore lie outside the jurisdiction of the courts to which reference is made in Section 131 above. (2) Settlement of any collective labour dispute shall be subject to conciliation and arbitration procedure as provided for in a Sections 158 and 164 hereunder. (3) Shall be deemed legitimate any strike or lock-out started after these arbitration procedures have been exhausted and have failed. (4) A strike shall be collective or concerted refusal by all or part of the workers of an establishment to comply with the normal labour rules, in order to bring the employer to meet their demands or claims. (5) A lock-out shall be the locking of an establishment by the employer in order to bring pressure to bear on workers on strike or threatening to go in strike. I - Conciliation