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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2572 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to require secret ballots and |
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| 6 | 6 | | employee participation in the election of representatives. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL1, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. O |
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| 10 | 10 | | NDER(for himself and Mr. MESSMER) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the National Labor Relations Act to require secret |
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| 14 | 14 | | ballots and employee participation in the election of rep- |
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| 15 | 15 | | resentatives. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Worker Enfranchise-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | ment Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. EMPLOYEE ENFRANCHISEMENT. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) I |
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| 23 | 23 | | NGENERAL.—Section 9 of the National Labor 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159) is amended— 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘That no 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | person shall be an exclusive representative of em-10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ployees in such unit unless such person has been 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | designated or selected as the exclusive representative 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | of such employees by a majority of the voters in a 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | secret ballot election in which not less than two- 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | thirds of such employees vote; Provided further,’’ 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | after ‘‘employment: Provided,’’; and 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) in subsection (c)(3), by inserting ‘‘of the at 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | least two-thirds of employees eligible to vote’’ after 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘majority’’. 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) E |
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| 40 | 40 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | this Act shall apply in relation to elections occurring on 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | or after the date that is 6 months after the date of enact-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ment of this Act. 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Æ |
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