---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 522"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "522"
heading: "Extortionate picketing; penalty for violation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/522"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §522. Extortionate picketing; penalty for violation

- (a) It shall be unlawful to carry on picketing on or about the premises of any [employer](/usc/29/402.md?p=e) for the purpose of, or as part of any conspiracy or in furtherance of any plan or purpose for, the personal profit or enrichment of any individual (except a bona fide increase in wages or other [employee](/usc/29/402.md?p=f) benefits) by taking or obtaining any money or other thing of value from such [employer](/usc/29/402.md?p=e) against his will or with his consent.
- (b) Any [person](/usc/29/402.md?p=d) who willfully violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 602, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 539.)