29 U.S.C. § 108 — Noncompliance with obligations involved in labor disputes or failure to settle by negotiation or arbitration as preventing injunctive relief

This section stops certain people from getting court help in labor disputes. If you're part of a labor dispute and you ask a court for a restraining order or an injunction, the court can refuse you in two situations. First, the court will refuse if you failed to comply with any obligation imposed by law that's connected to the dispute. In other words, if you broke a legal duty tied to the dispute, you can't then ask a court to stop the other side. Second, the court will refuse if you didn't make every reasonable effort to settle the dispute. You have to have genuinely tried to resolve it — either through direct negotiation with the other side, or by using available government tools like mediation or voluntary arbitration. Simply refusing to talk, or skipping available settlement help, is enough to lose the right to injunctive relief under this rule.