Accountability for Represented Workers Act

Bill: 115-hr-5665
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rooney, Francis [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2018-04-27
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations
Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Accountability for Represented Workers Act</strong></p> <p> This bill amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to expand the definition of &quot;labor organization&quot; 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.</p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5665 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 A BILL To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to clarify the term labor organization.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Accountability for Represented Workers Act . 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. .