[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1554 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1554

To amend the National Labor Relations Act to require the arbitration of 
     initial contract negotiation disputes, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 18 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

  Mr. Simon (for himself and Mr. Wellstone) 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 require the arbitration of 
     initial contract negotiation disputes, 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 Relations First Contract 
Negotiations Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. INITIAL CONTRACT DISPUTES.

    Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h)(1) If not later than sixty days after the certification of a 
new representative for the purpose of collective bargaining, the 
employer and the representative have not reached a collective 
bargaining agreement with respect to the terms and conditions of 
employment, the employer and representative shall jointly select a 
mediator to mediate those issues on which they cannot agree.
    ``(2) If the parties are unable to agree upon a mediator, either 
party may request the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to 
name one and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall 
thereupon appoint a person to serve as mediator.
    ``(3) If not later than thirty days after the date of the selection 
of a mediator under paragraphs (1) or (2), the employer and the 
representative have still not reached agreement, the employer or the 
representative may transfer the matters remaining in controversy to the 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for binding arbitration.''.

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