[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2146 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2146

To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure that certain orders 
   of the National Labor Relations Board are enforced to protect the 
                          rights of employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2003

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure that certain orders 
   of the National Labor Relations Board are enforced to protect the 
                          rights of employees.

    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 Labor Relations Board 
Ruling Enforcement Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. GOOD FAITH BARGAINING.

    Section 10 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 160) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(n) If the Board determines that an unlawful refusal to bargain 
prior to entering into the first collective-bargaining contract between 
the employer and the representative selected or designated by a 
majority of the employees in the bargaining unit has taken place, the 
Board may award to the employees in that unit compensation for the 
delay in bargaining caused by the unfair labor practices. Compensation 
for such delay shall be measured by the difference between (1) the 
wages and other benefits received by such employees during the period 
of delay, and (2) the wages and fringe benefits such employees were 
receiving at the time of the unfair labor practices multiplied by the 
percentage change in wages and other benefits stated in the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics' average wage and benefit settlements, quarterly 
report of major collective-bargaining settlements, for the quarter in 
which the delay began. If the Secretary of Labor certifies to the Board 
that the Bureau has, subsequent to the enactment of the National Labor 
Relations Board Ruling Enforcement Act of 2001, instituted regular 
issuance of a statistical compilation of bargaining settlements which 
the Secretary determines would better effectuate the purposes of this 
subsection than the compilation specified herein, the Board shall, in 
administering this subsection, use the compilation certified by the 
Secretary.''.
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