[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3358 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3358

  To clarify that employees may seek recourse from the National Labor 
      Relations Board if discriminated against by an employer for 
           participating in an unfair labor practice strike.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2021

 Mr. Stauber introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify that employees may seek recourse from the National Labor 
      Relations Board if discriminated against by an employer for 
           participating in an unfair labor practice strike.

    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 ``Protecting Striking Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that it is the policy of the United States that 
workers have the right to participate in lawful strikes in protest of 
unfair labor practices.

SEC. 3. CLARIFYING RECOURSES FOR WORKERS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST FOR 
              PARTICIPATING IN A LAWFUL UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE.

    Section 10(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 
160(c)) is amended by inserting before ``And provided further,'' the 
following: ``Provided further, That in any case in which the Board 
finds that an employer unlawfully discriminated against an employee in 
relation to the employee's participation in a lawful strike to protest 
an unfair labor practice of the employer, the Board may order 
reinstatement of the employee, require back pay, require the employer 
to post a notice to employees of its commitment to observe employee's 
rights under this Act, or take such other affirmative action as the 
Board may consider appropriate:''.
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