[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2687 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2687

To provide coverage under the Railway Labor Act to employees of certain 
                air and surface transportation entities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 19, 2004

  Mr. Harkin 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 provide coverage under the Railway Labor Act to employees of certain 
                air and surface transportation entities.

    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 ``Express Carrier Employee Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT.

    Section 201 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 181) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``All'' and inserting ``(a) In General.--
        All'';
            (2) by inserting ``and every express carrier'' after 
        ``common carrier by air''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Express Carriers.--The employees of an express carrier shall 
be covered by this Act only if they are licensed airmen, licensed 
aircraft maintenance technicians, or licensed aircraft dispatchers, and 
only if they perform duties for the express carrier pursuant to the 
privileges of the appropriate license. All other employees of an 
express carrier shall be covered by the provisions of the National 
Labor Relations Act.
    ``(c) Definition.--In this section, the term `express carrier' 
means any company (or companies affiliated through common control or 
ownership) that has an integrated network of air and surface 
transportation for the purpose of the express shipment of packages.''.
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