[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1748 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1748

To require labor organizations to guarantee members the opportunity to 
               vote on contracts prior to work stoppage.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2005

   Mr. Norwood (for himself, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. 
Linder, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Akin, and Mr. Burton of Indiana) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require labor organizations to guarantee members the opportunity to 
               vote on contracts prior to work stoppage.

    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 ``Union Member Freedom From Strikes 
Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. MEMBERSHIP RIGHT TO VOTE ON CONTRACTS.

    Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (6);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (7) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) to strike an employer unless the employees of the 
        collective bargaining unit engaged in the strike have voted by 
        secret ballot to reject the last contract offer proposed by 
        such employer; and''.
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