To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for appropriate designation of collective bargaining units.

United States115th CongressHR-2629House of Representatives
Updated: May 24, 2017

Summary

Representation Fairness Restoration Act This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to replace the current legal standard for determining the appropriateness of a collective bargaining unit. Under a 2011 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile , the NLRB must approve a requested bargaining unit unless an employer can show that an overwhelming community of interest exists between the requested unit and some other portion of the workforce, thus allowing the formation of smaller bargaining units (i.e., micro-bargaining units). This bill requires the NLRB to determine a unit appropriate for collective bargaining if it consists of employees who share a sufficient community of interest and sets forth factors for the NLRB to consider in determining whether employees share a sufficient community of interest.

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S-1217: A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for appropriate designation of collective bargaining units.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

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