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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2952
To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
to clarify reporting requirements.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL17, 2025
Mr. O
WENSintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure
Act of 1959 to clarify reporting requirements.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Start Applying Labor 4
Transparency Act’’ or ‘‘SALT Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. LABOR-MANAGEMENT REPORTING AND DISCLO-6
SURE ACT OF 1959. 7
(a) F
ILING ANDCONTENTS OF REPORT OFPAY-8
MENTS, LOANS, PROMISES, AGREEMENTS, ORARRANGE-9
MENTS.—Section 201 of the Labor-Management Report-10
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ing and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 431) is amend-1
ed— 2
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) 3
as subsections (d) through (f), respectively; and 4
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-5
lowing: 6
‘‘(c) Every labor organization who in any fiscal year 7
made— 8
‘‘(1) any payment or loan, direct or indirect, of 9
money or any other thing of value (including reim-10
bursed expenses), or any promise or agreement 11
therefor, to an employee, or a group or committee of 12
employees, of an employer (other than the labor or-13
ganization) for the purpose of causing such employee 14
or group or committee to persuade other employees 15
to exercise or not to exercise, or as the manner of 16
exercising, the right to organize and bargain collec-17
tively through representatives of their own choosing 18
unless such payments were contemporaneously or 19
previously disclosed to such other employees; 20
‘‘(2) any agreement or arrangement with a 21
labor relations consultant or other independent con-22
tractor or organization pursuant to which such con-23
sultant, independent contractor, or organization un-24
dertakes activities where an object thereof, directly 25
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or indirectly, is to persuade employees to exercise or 1
not to exercise, or persuade employees as to the 2
manner of exercising, the right to organize and bar-3
gain collectively through representatives of their own 4
choosing, or undertakes to supply such labor organi-5
zation with information concerning the activities of 6
employees or an employer in connection with a labor 7
dispute involving such labor organization, except in-8
formation for use solely in conjunction with an ad-9
ministrative or arbitral proceeding or a criminal or 10
civil judicial proceeding; or 11
‘‘(3) any payment (including reimbursed ex-12
penses) pursuant to an agreement or arrangement 13
described in paragraph (2); 14
shall file with the Secretary a report, in a form prescribed 15
by the Secretary, signed by its treasurer or corresponding 16
principal officers showing in detail the date and amount 17
of each such payment, loan, promise, agreement, or ar-18
rangement and the name, address, and position, if any, 19
of any firm or person to whom it was made and a full 20
explanation of the circumstances of all such payments, in-21
cluding the terms of any agreement or understanding pur-22
suant to which they were made. This shall include the 23
name of any employer targeted by such individual and the 24
location of the employer’s targeted facility.’’. 25
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(b) PERSUASIVEACTIVITIESRELATING TO THE 1
R
IGHTTOORGANIZE ANDBARGAINCOLLECTIVELY; SUP-2
PLYINGINFORMATION OF ACTIVITIES INCONNECTION 3
W
ITHLABORDISPUTES; FILING ANDCONTENTS OFRE-4
PORT OFAGREEMENT ORARRANGEMENT.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 202 of the Labor- 6
Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 7
(29 U.S.C. 432) is amended— 8
(A) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-9
section (d); and 10
(B) by inserting after subsection (b) the 11
following: 12
‘‘(c) Every person who receives payment or loan, di-13
rect or indirect, of money or any other thing of value (in-14
cluding reimbursed expenses), or any promise or agree-15
ment therefor from another to seek employment with a 16
third party where an object thereof is in whole or in part, 17
directly or indirectly— 18
‘‘(1) persuade employees of the third party to 19
exercise or not to exercise, or as to the manner of 20
exercising, the right to organize and bargain collec-21
tively through representatives of their own choosing; 22
or 23
‘‘(2) supply a labor organization with informa-24
tion concerning the activities of employees or agents 25
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of third party in connection with a labor dispute in-1
volving such third part, except information for use 2
solely in conjunction with an administrative or arbi-3
tral proceeding or a criminal or civil judicial pro-4
ceeding; 5
shall file within thirty days after entering into such agree-6
ment or arrangement a report with the Secretary, signed 7
by its treasurer or corresponding principal officers, con-8
taining the name under which such person is engaged in 9
doing business and the address of its principal office, and 10
a detailed statement of the terms and conditions of such 11
agreement or arrangement. Every such person shall file 12
annually, with respect to each fiscal year during which 13
payments were made as a result of such an agreement or 14
arrangement, a report with the Secretary, signed by its 15
president and treasurer or corresponding principal offi-16
cers, containing a statement (A) of its receipts of any kind 17
from labor organizations on account of labor relations ad-18
vice or services, designating the sources thereof, and (B) 19
of its disbursements of any kind, in connection with such 20
services and the purposes thereof. In each such case such 21
information shall be set forth in such categories as the 22
Secretary may prescribe.’’. 23
(2) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENT .—Section 202 24
of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure 25
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Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 432) is amended in sub-1
section (d), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by 2
striking ‘‘under subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘under 3
subsection (a) or (c)’’. 4
SEC. 3. REGULATIONS. 5
Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment 6
of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall issue such regula-7
tions as are necessary to carry out the amendments made 8
by this Act. 9
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