Title: Accountability for Represented Workers Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Accountability for Represented Workers Act
This bill amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to expand the definition of "labor organization" to include any efforts of the labor organization to discuss or communicate with an employer the establishment of, or changes to, particular terms and conditions of employment and to include as an employee any individual whether or not the labor organization deals with the employer of such individual.
The bill also specifies that the list of labor organizations deemed by the Act as engaged in an industry affecting commerce shall not be considered an exhaustive list.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5665 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5665

 To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to 
                  clarify the term labor organization.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2018

Mr. Francis Rooney of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to 
                  clarify the term labor organization.

    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 ``Accountability for Represented 
Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM LABOR ORGANIZATION.

    Section 3 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 
1959 (29 U.S.C. 402) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (i)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(including any effort to discuss 
                or communicate with an employer the establishment of, 
                or changes to, particular terms and conditions of 
                employment, or to take any action to pressure an 
                employer into accepting the establishment of, or 
                changes to, such terms and conditions of employment)'' 
                after ``conditions of employment''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``(who may include any individual 
                who is an employee without regard to whether the labor 
                organization deals with the employer of such 
                individual)'' after ``employees''; and
            (2) in subsection (j)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as 
                subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively, and 
                indenting appropriately;
                    (B) by striking ``(j)'' and inserting ``(j) (1)''; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Paragraph (1) shall not be considered an exhaustive 
        list of the labor organizations that shall be deemed to be 
        engaged in an industry affecting commerce.''.
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