COLLECTIVE BARGAINING see also Labor Unions

Bills and resolutions

Contracts: preserve open competition and neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects (see S. 109), S214 [23JA] (see H.R. 436), H300 [29JA]

Dept. of Labor: modify employee protective arrangements for public transportation projects (see H.R. 2537), H4142 [27JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: modify authorities relative to collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration (see S. 1556), S7007 [27SE]

Federal employees: eliminate use of official time (see S. 785), S2896 [23AP]

——— limit circumstances in which official time may be used by a Federal employee (see S. 1312), S5755 [17JY] (see H.R. 107), H31 [3JA]

Human rights: express that the U.S. should become an international human rights leader by ratifying and implementing certain core international conventions (see H. Res. 283), H4143 [27JN]

IRS: exclude from labor-management relations provisions of the U.S. Code (see H.R. 2679), H4483 [11JY]

Labor unions: clarify the illegality of the use of violence to achieve objectives during a strike (see H.R. 2021), H2717 [16MY]

——— protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (see S. 204), S438 [31JA] (see S. 1712), S8049 [14NO] (see H.R. 946), H980 [5MR] (see H.R. 3485), H7109 [14NO]

——— protect workers from corrupt and coercive ‘‘card check’’ system of organizing (see H.R. 1815), H2393 [26AP]

——— require arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes (see H.R. 169), H51 [4JA]

NLRB: modify authority relative to rulemaking, issuance of complaints, and authority over unfair labor practices (see H.R. 795), H596 [15FE]

——— permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees who are working under a union contract (see S. 1542), S6753 [24SE] (see H.R. 3154), H5766 [19SE]

——— reform criteria for determining employee units appropriate for purposes of collective bargaining (see S. 1166), S4481 [13JN] (see H.R. 2347), H3590 [13JN]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: exclude individuals who receive health insurance coverage pursuant to collective bargaining from tax credits and reductions in cost-sharing (see H.R. 3093), H5546 [12SE]

Remarks in House

African Americans: history of involvement in the labor movement, H5425–H5432 [9SE], E1265 [9SE]

Labor unions: protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (H.R. 946), H2305 [25AP]

Remarks in Senate

Labor unions: prohibit access to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act advanced premium tax credits for low-income members in effort to avoid increased health care costs, S734 [14FE]

——— protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations, S7803, S7804 [5NO]

——— protect the free choice of individual employees relative to participation in labor organizations (S. 204), S448 [31JA], S449 [4FE]

NLRB: history, effectiveness, and need for fully staffed board relevant to negotiations with business and industry, receiving of workers complaints, and protection of workers against unfair labor practices, S5831 [23JY]

——— permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees who are working under a union contract, S4207 [11JN]