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National Right-to-Work Act

HR-785 (2017)

Disposition: 2017-Feb-01
Introduced in the House

The bill needs to pass the House and Senate - and then be signed by the president - to become law.

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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.

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Bill Summary

This bill would make Right-to-Work the national policy, rather than allowing individual states to implement it.

This means that nationwide, workers would not be required to pay a union representing them - even if they benefit from higher wages and improved work conditions negotiated by the union.

This is at least the 5th try for a national right-to-work law

A similar bill has been introduced several times previously...

2015: HR-612
2013: HR-946
2011: HR-2040
2009: HR-4107

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