Earlier this week, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-L.A.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, unveiled a transformative set of bills that, if passed, would substantially modify the National Labor Relations Act, help stabilize federal labor law from administration to administration, and make union organizing more challenging for the union side.
The proposed legislation includes six separate, but related, bills. Below is a brief summary of each of them:
- Worker Reforming Elections for Speedy and Unimpeded Labor Talks (RESULTS) Act: This bill makes a number of changes to federal labor law. The most significant is that it seeks to require secret ballot elections, and prohibits card-check recognition as a means to certify a union’s representation of a bargaining unit. The asserted purpose of this change is to mitigate the risk of influence or intimidation over the employee’s ballot. This bill also seeks to require that at least 2/3 of the bargaining unit cast votes in order for the election to be valid.
- NLRB Stability Act: This bill requires the NLRB to adhere to controlling authority issued by the federal court of appeals in which the unfair labor practice allegedly occurred, which could help address the challenge for employers to keep up with the changing legal landscape under new Board composition and leadership through each presidential administration, as we have routinely written about over the years (see, for example, here and here).
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