[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1532 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1532

  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide equal time to 
     labor organizations to present information relating to labor 
                 organizations, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 7 (legislative day, September 27), 1993

   Mr. Simon introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide equal time to 
     labor organizations to present information relating to labor 
                 organizations, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Labor Organizations Equal 
Presentation Time Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EMPLOYER AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS PRESENTATIONS.

    Section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after the subsection designation; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
    ``(2) If an employer or employer representative addresses the 
employees on the employer's premises or during work hours, on issues 
relating to representation by a labor organization, the employees shall 
be assured, without loss of time or pay, an equal opportunity to 
obtain, in an equivalent manner, information concerning such issues 
from such labor organization.
    ``(3) Labor organizations shall have access to areas in which 
employees work, the right to use the employer's bulletin boards, 
mailboxes, and other communication media, subject to reasonable 
regulation by the Board, and the right to use the employer's facilities 
for the purpose of meetings with respect to the exercise of the rights 
guaranteed by this Act.''.

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