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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2173 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 333
112th CONGRESS
  2D Session
                                S. 2173

  To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to 
  form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
                              activities.

_______________________________________________________________________

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2012

Mr. DeMint (for himself, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Paul, Mr. 
Toomey, Mr. Vitter, and Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; which 
                        was read the first time

                             March 8, 2012

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
  To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to 
  form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
                              activities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Right-to-Work Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT.

    (a) Rights of Employees.--Section 7 of the National Labor Relations 
Act (29 U.S.C. 157) is amended by striking ``except to'' and all that 
follows through ``authorized in section 8(a)(3)''.
    (b) Unfair Labor Practices.--Section 8 of the National Labor 
Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``: Provided, That'' 
        and all that follows through ``retaining membership'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``or to 
                discriminate'' and all that follows through ``retaining 
                membership''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (5), by striking ``covered by an 
                agreement authorized under subsection (a)(3) of this 
                section''; and
            (3) in subsection (f), by striking clause (2) and 
        redesignating clauses (3) and (4) as clauses (2) and (3), 
        respectively.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT.

    Section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152) is amended by 
striking paragraph Eleven.
                                                       Calendar No. 333

112th CONGRESS

  2D Session

                                S. 2173

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to 
  form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
                              activities.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             March 8, 2012

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar
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