Title: National Right-to-Work Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
National Right-to-Work Act
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require employees to join a union as a condition of employment (including provisions permitting railroad carriers to require, pursuant to such an agreement, payroll deduction of union dues or fees as a condition of employment).

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 545 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 545

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2017

   Mr. Paul (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. 
  Cotton, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Enzi, Mrs. Ernst, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Heller, Mr. 
Inhofe, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Lee, Mr. Moran, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Roberts, Mr. 
 Rounds, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Scott, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Graham) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 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)--
                    (A) by striking clause (2) and redesignating 
                clauses (3) and (4) as clauses (2) and (3), 
                respectively; and
                    (B) by striking ``Provided, That nothing in this 
                subsection shall set aside the final proviso to section 
                8(a)(3) of this Act:''.
    (c) Additional Conforming Amendments.--The National Labor Relations 
Act (29 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 9 (29 U.S.C. 159), by striking subsection 
        (e);
            (2) in section 3(b), by striking ``or (e)''; and
            (3) in section 8(f), as amended by subsection (b)(3), by 
        striking ``or 9(e)''.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT.

    Section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152) is amended by 
striking the Eleventh paragraph under the heading for general duties.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, shall apply to any 
agreement entered into or renewed after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
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