[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 500 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 500

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2005

 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina (for himself, Mrs. Musgrave, Mr. Wicker, 
 Mr. Paul, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Goode, Mr. Beauprez, Mr. 
 Norwood, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Linder, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Poe, Mr. Weldon of 
  Florida, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. 
 Tancredo, Mr. Ryun of Kansas, Mr. Issa, and Mr. Kolbe) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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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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