National Right-to-Work Act

Bill: 115-hr-785
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-02-01
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights

Labor-management relations

Railroads

Transportation employees
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>National Right-to-Work Act</b></p> <p> This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers or labor organizations, 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). </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 785 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 1, 2017 Mr. King of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Wilson of South Carolina ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Right-to-Work Act . 2. Amendments to the national labor relations Act (a) Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (the 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) of the Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(a) ) is amended by striking : Provided, That and all that follows through retaining membership in paragraph (3). (c) Section 8(b) of the Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(b) ) is amended by striking or to discriminate and all that follows through retaining membership in paragraph (2) and by striking covered by an agreement authorized under subsection (a)(3) of this section in paragraph (5). (d) Section 8(f) of the Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(f) ) is amended by striking clause (2) and by redesignating clauses (3) and (4) as (2) and (3), respectively. 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.