[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 873 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 873

  To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to 
  form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
                              activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 14, 2001

Mr. Helms (for himself, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Hutchinson, and Mr. Smith of 
New Hampshire) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to 
  form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
                              activities.

    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 ``National Right-to-Work Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT.

    (a) Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (the ``Act'') (29 
U.S.C. 157) is amended by striking ``except to'' and all that follows 
through ``authorized in section 8(a)(3)''.
    (b) Section 8(a) of the Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)) is amended by 
striking ``: Provided, That'' and all that follows through ``retaining 
membership'' in paragraph (3).
    (c) Section 8(b) of the Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)) is amended by 
striking ``or to discriminate'' and all that follows through 
``retaining membership'' in paragraph (2) and by striking ``covered by 
an agreement authorized under subsection (a)(3) of this section'' in 
paragraph (5).
    (d) Section 8(f) of the Act (29 U.S.C. 158(f)) is amended by 
striking clause (2) and by redesignating clauses (3) and (4) as (2) and 
(3), respectively.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT.

    Section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152) is amended by 
striking paragraph Eleventh.
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