[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 777 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 777

  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

                  May 9 (legislative day, May 1), 1995

   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 1995''.

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) Subject to reasonable regulation by the Board, labor 
organizations shall have--
            ``(A) access to areas in which employees work;
            ``(B) the right to use the employer's bulletin boards, 
        mailboxes, and other communication media; and
            ``(C) 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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