ARTICLE 7: NO STRIKE, NO DISCRIMINATION AND OTHER UNDERTAKINGS
7.1 (a) Neither the NHLPA nor any Player shall authorize, encourage, or engage in any strike, work stoppage, slowdown or other concerted interference with the activities of any Club or of the League during the term of this Agreement. Nor shall any Player decline to play or practice or in concert with any other person otherwise interfere with the activities of any Club or the League, or individually or in concert encourage any other Player to do so because of picketing or a labor dispute involving any other labor organization. The NHLPA shall not support or condone any action of any Player which is not in accordance with this Section 7.1 and the NHLPA shall exert reasonable efforts to induce compliance therewith.
(b) Neither the League nor any Club shall engage in a lockout during the term of this Agreement.
7.2 Neither the NHLPA, the NHL, nor any Club shall discriminate in the interpretation or application of this Agreement against or in favor of any Player because of religion, race, disability, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or membership or non-membership in or support of or non-support of any labor organization.
7.3 No Player who is a party to an SPC with a Club shall, during the term of such SPC (including any permissible option year under a 1995 SPC that has been properly exercised by the Player or Club, as the case may be), enter into negotiations with another Club
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