SEC. 502. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this title is to ensure that workers
who are required to pay union dues as a condition of em-
ployment have adequate information about how the money
they pay in dues to a union is spent and to remove obsta-
cles to the ability of working people to exercise their right
to object to the use of their dues for political, legislative,
social, or charitable causes with which they disagree, or
for other activities not necessary to performing the duties
of the exclusive representative of the employees in dealing
with the employer on labor-management issues.
SEC. 503. WORKER CHOICE.
(a) RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES.—Section 7 of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 157) is amended
by striking ‘‘membership’’ and all that follows and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘the payment to a labor organization
of dues or fees related to collective bargaining, contract
administration, or grievance adjustment necessary to per-
forming the duties of exclusive representation as a condi-
tion of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3).’’.
(b) UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES.—Section 8(a)(3) of
such Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)(3)) is amended by striking
‘‘membership therein’’ and inserting ‘‘the payment to such
labor organization of dues or fees related to collective bar-
gaining, contract administration, or grievance adjustment
necessary to performing the duties of exclusive representa-
tion’’.
SEC. 504. WORKER CONSENT.
(a) WRITTEN AGREEMENT.—Section 8 of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(h) An employee subject to an agreement between
an employer and a labor organization requiring the pay-
ment of dues or fees to such organization as authorized
in section 8(a)(3) may not be required to pay to such orga-
nization, nor may such organization accept payment of,
any dues or fees not related to collective bargaining, con-
tract administration, or grievance adjustment necessary to
performing the duties of exclusive representation unless
the employee has agreed to pay such dues or fees in a
signed written agreement that must be renewed between
the first day of September and the first day of October
of each year. Such signed written agreement shall include
a ratio of the dues or fees related to collective bargaining,
contract administration, or grievance adjustment nec-
essary to performing the duties of exclusive representation
and the dues or fees related to other purposes.’’.
(b) WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT.—Section 302(c)(4) of
the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C.
186(c)(4)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon
the following: ‘‘: Provided further, That no amount may
be deducted for dues unrelated to collective bargaining,
contract administration, or grievance adjustment nec-
essary to performing the duties of exclusive representation
unless a written assignment authorizes such a deduction’’.
SEC. 505. WORKER NOTICE.
Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act (29
U.S.C. 158), as amended by section 504(a), is further
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(i) An employer shall be required to post a notice,
of such size and in such form as the Board shall prescribe,
in conspicuous places in and about its plants and offices,
including all places where notices to employees are cus-
tomarily posted, informing employees of their rights under
section 7 of this Act and clarifying to employees that an
agreement requiring the payment of dues or fees to a labor
organization as a condition of employment as authorized
in subsection (a)(3) may only require that employees pay
to such organization any dues or fees related to collective
bargaining, contract administration, or grievance adjust-
ment necessary to performing the duties of exclusive rep-
resentation.’’.
SEC. 506. DISCLOSURE TO WORKERS.
(a) EXPENSES REPORTING.—Section 201(b) of the
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
(29 U.S.C. 431(b)) is amended by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ‘‘Every labor organization shall be
required to attribute and report expenses by function clas-
sification in such detail as necessary to allow its members
to determine whether such expenses were related to collec-
tive bargaining, contract administration, or grievance ad-
justment necessary to performing the duties of exclusive
representation or were related to other purposes.’’.
(b) DISCLOSURE.—Section 201(c) of the Labor-Man-
agement Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C.
431(c)) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘and employees required to pay
any dues or fees to such organization’’ after ‘‘mem-
bers’’; and
(2) inserting ‘‘or employee required to pay any
dues or fees to such organization’’ after ‘‘member’’
each place it appears.
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Labor shall
prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out
the amendments made by this section not later than 120
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 507. CONSTRUCTION.
Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect sec-
tion 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act or the con-
current jurisdiction of Federal district courts over claims
that a labor organization has breached its duty of fair rep-
resentation with regard to the collection or expenditure of
dues or fees.
SEC. 508. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This title shall take effect on the date of enactment,
except that the requirements contained in the amendments
made by sections 504 and 505 shall take effect 60 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS AND
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 601. TERM LIMITS FOR FEC COMMISSIONERS.
Section 306 (2 U.S.C. 437c(a)(2)(A)) is amended by
striking ‘‘terms’’ and inserting ‘‘no more than one term’’.
SEC. 602. EXPEDITED COURT REVIEW.
(a) RIGHT TO BRING ACTION.—The Federal Elec-
tion Commission, a political committee under title III of
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, or any indi-
vidual eligible to vote in any election for the office of Presi-
dent of the United States may institute an action in an
appropriate district court of the United States (including
an action for declaratory judgment) as may be appropriate
to construe the constitutionality of any provision of this
Act or any amendment made by this Act.
(b) HEARING BY THREE-JUDGE COURT.—Upon the
institution of an action described in subsection (a), a dis-
trict court of three judges shall immediately be convened
to decide the action pursuant to section 2284 of title 28,
United States Code. Such action shall be advanced on the
docket and expedited to the greatest extent possible.
(c) APPEAL
OF INITIAL DECISION
TO SUPREME
COURT.—An appeal may be taken directly to the Supreme
Court of the United States from any interlocutory order
or final judgment, decree, or order issued by the court of
3 judges convened pursuant to subsection (b) in an action
described in subsection (a). Such appeal shall be brought
not later than 20 days after the issuance by the court of
the judgment, decree, or order.
(d) EXPEDITED REVIEW BY SUPREME COURT.—The
Supreme Court shall accept jurisdiction over, advance on
the docket, and expedite to the greatest extent possible
an appeal taken pursuant to subsection (c).
SEC. 603. ISSUANCE OF REGULATIONS.
The Federal Election Commission shall issue any reg-
ulations required to carry out this Act and the amend-
ments made by this Act not later than 9 months after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 604. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as otherwise specifically provided, this Act
and the amendments made by this Act shall apply with
respect to elections occurring after January 1999.
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