On 18 November, three Republican US House of Representatives members from the conservative states of South Dakota, North Carolina, and Tennessee, presented their Worker’s Choice Act that aims to amend the National Labor Relations Act. The text has been published (here) and is entitled: ‘To amend the National Labor Relations Act to repeal exclusive representation (Ed. Note: by a trade union), to remove any requirement that individual employees join or pay dues or fees to labor organizations, and for other purposes.’
The bill’s sponsors (press statement here) argue that the goal of the bill is to allow workers the opportunity to independently negotiate their employment terms and conditions directly with their employers, even if they are covered by a trade union negotiated collective agreement. They criticize that, ‘the National Labor Relations Act provides unions with exclusive bargaining power,’ such that ‘an employee who opts-out of union participation is still subject to the collectively bargained employ
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