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

Summary:
National Right-to-Work Act
This bill repeals those provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act 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 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2571 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2571

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2019

  Mr. Wilson of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Carter of 
 Texas, Mr. Allen, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Davidson of Ohio, 
Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Rice 
 of South Carolina, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Hice of Georgia, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. 
 King of Iowa, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. David P. Roe of 
 Tennessee, Mr. Norman, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Babin, 
Mr. Duncan, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Banks, Mr. Harris, Mr. Perry, Mr. Cole, Mr. 
Webster of Florida, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. 
 Marchant, Mr. Buck, Mr. Massie, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Collins 
of Georgia, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Budd, Mr. Graves of Georgia, 
Mr. Hill of Arkansas, Mr. Timmons, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Long, Mr. Yoho, Mr. 
   Palmer, Mr. Williams, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Ratcliffe, and Mr. Dunn) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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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) 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) Section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
158(a)(3)) is amended by striking ``: Provided, That'' and all that 
follows through ``retaining membership''.
    (c) Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
158(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``or to discriminate'' 
        and all that follows through ``retaining membership''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5), by striking ``covered by an agreement 
        authorized under subsection (a)(3)''.
    (d) Section 8(f) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
158(f)) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating 
paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (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 Eleventh.
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