(820 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2a)
    Sec. 1. No restraining order or injunction shall be granted by any court of this State in any case involving or growing out of a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, enjoining or restraining any person or persons, either singly or in concert, from terminating any relation of employment or from ceasing to perform any work or labor, or from peaceably and without threats or intimidation recommending, advising, or persuading others so to do; or from peaceably and without threats or intimidation being upon any public street, or thoroughfare or highway for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information, or to peaceably and without threats or intimidation persuade any person or persons to work or to abstain from working, or to employ or to peaceably and without threats or intimidation cease to employ any party to a labor dispute, or to recommend, advise, or persuade others so to do.
(Source: P.A. 83-334.)

    (820 ILCS 5/1.1) (from Ch. 48, par. 2a.1)
    Sec. 1.1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Labor Dispute Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

    (820 ILCS 5/1.2)
    Sec. 1.2. Legislative findings and declaration. The General Assembly finds that a union, union members, sympathizers, and an employer's employees have a right to communicate their dispute with a primary employer to the public by picketing the primary employer wherever they happen to be. The picketing may take place not only at the employer's main facility, but at job sites as well. The General Assembly recognizes that peaceful primary picketing of any type is explicitly permitted by statute pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 151 et seq., and the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 141 et seq., including the right to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection as provided in 29 U.S.C. 157 et seq.
(Source: P.A. 94-321, eff. 1-1-06.)

    (820 ILCS 5/1.3)
    Sec. 1.3. Definitions. As used in Section 1.2 through 1.5:
    "Employee" means any individual permitted to work by an employer in an occupation.
    "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, governmental or quasi-governmental body, or any person or group of persons that employs any person to work, labor, or exercise skill in connection with the operation of any business, industry, vocation, or occupation.
    "Picketing" means the stationing of a person for an organization to apprise the public by signs or other means of the existence of a dispute pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 151 et seq., and the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 141 et seq.
    "Dispute" includes any controversy concerning terms or

    (820 ILCS 5/1.4)
    Sec. 1.4. Use of public right of way.
    (a) Persons engaged in picketing shall be allowed to use public rights of way to apprise the public of the existence of a dispute for the following:
        (1) The purposes of picketing.
        (2) The erection of temporary signs announcing their