National Right-to-Work Act

National Right-to-Work Act

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 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 612 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 612

  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

                            January 28, 2015

Mr. King of Iowa (for himself, Mr. Barr, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Bishop of 
Utah, Mr. Blum, Mr. Brat, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Buck, Mr. Clawson 
  of Florida, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mrs. Comstock, Mr. Conaway, Mr. 
  Crawford, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Culberson, Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Duncan of 
South Carolina, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Fincher, Mr. Fleischmann, 
 Ms. Foxx, Mr. Barton, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Gohmert, 
  Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Graves of Georgia, Mr. Griffith, Mr. 
   Harper, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. 
 Huelskamp, Ms. Jenkins of Kansas, Mr. Jolly, Mr. Jordan, Mr. LaMalfa, 
 Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Long, Mr. Loudermilk, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Marchant, Mr. 
 Massie, Mr. McHenry, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. 
    Mullin, Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Nunnelee, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Palmer, Mr. 
 Palazzo, Mr. Perry, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Pompeo, 
   Mr. Ratcliffe, Mrs. Roby, Mr. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Salmon, Mr. 
  Schweikert, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Smith of 
    Nebraska, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. 
  Williams, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Womack, Mr. Yoho, Mrs. 
   Black, and Mr. Bucshon) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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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 (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.

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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