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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5147 
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to repeal exclusive representation, 
to remove any requirement that individual employees join or pay dues 
or fees to labor organizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2019 
Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina, 
and Mr. DAVID P. ROE of Tennessee) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to repeal exclu-
sive representation, to remove any requirement that indi-
vidual employees join or pay dues or fees to labor organi-
zations, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Worker’s Choice Act 
of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELA-
TIONS ACT. 
(a) EMPLOYEE RIGHTS.—Section 7 of the National 
Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 157) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘except to’’ and all that follows through ‘‘authorized 
in section 8(a)(3)’’. 
(b) UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE FOR EMPLOYER.— 
Paragraph (3) of section 8(a) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘: 
Provided, That’’ and all that follows through ‘‘retaining 
membership’’. 
(c) UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE FOR LABOR ORGANI-
ZATION.—Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations 
Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘interfere with,’’ before 
‘‘restrain’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘(except that an employee 
can resign at any time effective immediately)’’ 
after ‘‘membership therein’’ in subparagraph 
(A); 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or to dis-
criminate’’ and all that follows through ‘‘retaining 
membership’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘covered by an agreement 
authorized under subsection (a)(3)’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘becoming a member of’’ 
and inserting ‘‘being represented by’’; 
(C) by striking the period after ‘‘cir-
cumstances’’, and by inserting ‘‘to defray the 
costs of collective bargaining under section 
8(d)’’ after ‘‘all the circumstances’’; and 
(D) by striking ‘‘In making such’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘the employees affected’’. 
(d) EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION.—Section 9 of the 
National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a)(1) A representative designated or selected for 
the purposes of collective bargaining by the affirmative 
vote of a majority of all the employees in a unit appro-
priate for such purposes shall be the only collective rep-
resentative of employees in such unit for the purposes of 
collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, 
hours of employment, or other conditions of employment 
for employees who elect to work under the terms and con-
ditions of a collective-bargaining agreement negotiated by 
such collective representative. 
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‘‘(2) A collective representative may represent only 
those employees who have affirmatively designated or se-
lected such representation. Any employee designation or 
selection under this subsection shall be in writing, shall 
state in prominent type that such designation or selection 
is revocable at any time, shall be signed by the employee 
and delivered to both the employer and the collective rep-
resentative, and shall provide in prominent type that no 
financial obligation can be imposed on account of the col-
lective representation of the employee after the date of any 
revocation of collective representation. 
‘‘(3) The terms and conditions of employment set out 
in any collective-bargaining agreement negotiated by a col-
lective representative designated or selected under this 
subsection shall apply only to those employees who affirm-
atively elect in writing to accept such terms and conditions 
of employment: Provided, That any individual employee or 
a group of employees who have elected to accept such 
terms and conditions of employment shall have the 
nonwaivable right at any time to present grievances to 
their employer and to have such grievances adjusted, with-
out the intervention of the collective representative, as 
long as the adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms 
of the collective-bargaining agreement then in effect for 
that employee or group of employees: Provided further, 
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That the collective representative of such employee or 
group of employees has been given an opportunity to be 
present at such adjustment. Individual employees who do 
not affirmatively elect in writing to accept the terms and 
conditions set out in a collective-bargaining agreement 
may accept any other terms and conditions of employment 
mutually acceptable to them and the employer.’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (e). 
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