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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 2241
5	5	To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure the right of employees
6	6	to a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	MARCH21, 2025
9	9	Mr. A
10	10	LLENintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
11	11	on Education and Workforce
12	12	A BILL
13	13	To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure the
14	14	right of employees to a secret ballot election conducted
15	15	by the National Labor Relations Board.
16	16	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
17	17	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
18	18	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
19	19	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Ballot Protec-4
20	20	tion Act’’. 5
21	21	SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 6
22	22	Congress finds that— 7
23	23	(1) the importance of a secret ballot election 8
24	24	has been recognized by the United States for over 9
25	25	100 years; 10
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29	29	(2) the fundamental democratic right to choose 1
30	30	by secret ballot is the only method that ensures a 2
31	31	choice free of coercion, intimidation, irregularity, or 3
32	32	illegality; 4
33	33	(3) the recognition of a labor organization by 5
34	34	way of a private agreement, rather than a secret bal-6
35	35	lot election supervised by a neutral third party, 7
36	36	threatens an employee’s right, codified in the Na-8
37	37	tional Labor Relations Act, to choose whether or not 9
38	38	to be represented by a labor organization; and 10
39	39	(4) preserving workers’ right to choose whether 11
40	40	or not to be represented by a labor organization 12
41	41	through a secret ballot election is important to the 13
42	42	strength of the national economy. 14
43	43	SEC. 3. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT. 15
44	44	(a) R
45	45	ECOGNITION OFREPRESENTATIVE.— 16
46	46	(1) I
47	47	N GENERAL.—Section 8(a)(2) of the Na-17
48	48	tional Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)(2)) is 18
49	49	amended by inserting before the colon the following: 19
50	50	‘‘or to recognize or bargain collectively with a labor 20
51	51	organization that has not been selected by a major-21
52	52	ity of employees in a unit appropriate for such pur-22
53	53	poses in a secret ballot election conducted by the 23
54	54	Board in accordance with section 9’’. 24
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58	58	(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by 1
59	59	paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-2
60	60	gaining relationships that were recognized before the 3
61	61	date of enactment of this Act. 4
62	62	(b) E
63	63	LECTIONREQUIRED.— 5
64	64	(1) I
65	65	N GENERAL.—Section 8(b) of the National 6
66	66	Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)), as amend-7
67	67	ed by subsection (c) of this section, is amended— 8
68	68	(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-9
69	69	graph (6); 10
70	70	(B) by striking the period at the end of 11
71	71	paragraph (7) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 12
72	72	(C) by adding at the end the following: 13
73	73	‘‘(8) to cause or attempt to cause an employer 14
74	74	to recognize or bargain collectively with a represent-15
75	75	ative of a labor organization that has not been se-16
76	76	lected by a majority of employees in a unit appro-17
77	77	priate for such purposes in a secret ballot election 18
78	78	conducted by the Board in accordance with section 19
79	79	9.’’. 20
80	80	(2) A
81	81	PPLICATION.—The amendment made by 21
82	82	paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-22
83	83	gaining relationships that were recognized before the 23
84	84	date of enactment of this Act. 24
85	85	(c) S
86	86	ECRETBALLOTELECTIONREQUIRED.— 25
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90	90	(1) DESIGNATION OF REPRESENTATIVE BY SE -1
91	91	CRET BALLOT.—Section 9(a) of the National Labor 2
92	92	Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159(a)), is amended— 3
93	93	(A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(a)’’; and 4
94	94	(B) by inserting after ‘‘designated or se-5
95	95	lected’’ the following: ‘‘by a secret ballot elec-6
96	96	tion conducted by the Board in accordance with 7
97	97	this section’’. 8
98	98	(2) D
99	99	ECERTIFICATION.—Such section is further 9
100	100	amended by adding at the end the following: 10
101	101	‘‘(2) The Board shall conduct a secret ballot 11
102	102	election to determine whether a labor organization 12
103	103	certified or recognized by an employer as the rep-13
104	104	resentative for the purposes of collective bargaining 14
105	105	is no longer the representative of a unit as defined 15
106	106	in paragraph (1).’’. 16
107	107	(3) A
108	108	PPLICATION.—The amendment made by 17
109	109	paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-18
110	110	gaining relationships that were recognized before the 19
111	111	date of enactment of this Act. 20
112	112	(d) C
113	113	ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.—Section 9(c)(1) of 21
114	114	such Act (29 U.S.C. 159(c)(1)) is amended— 22
115	115	(1) in subparagraph (A)— 23
116	116	(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘and that 24
117	117	their employer declines to recognize their rep-25
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121	121	resentative as the representative defined in sec-1
122	122	tion 9(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘by a representative’’; 2
123	123	and 3
124	124	(B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘section 4
125	125	9(a);’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (a),’’; and 5
126	126	(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘alleging’’ 6
127	127	and all that follows through ‘‘defined in section 7
128	128	9(a)’’. 8
129	129	SEC. 4. REGULATIONS. 9
130	130	Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment 10
131	131	of this Act, the National Labor Relations Board shall re-11
132	132	view and revise all regulations promulgated before such 12
133	133	date to implement the amendments made in this Act to 13
134	134	the National Labor Relations Act. 14
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