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H.R. 2723: Employee Rights Act

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H.R. 2723: Employee Rights Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-05-25 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Prior to Referral.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-05-25 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Prior to Referral. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Employee Rights Act

Plain summary

Employee Rights Act This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to: (1) make it an unlawful labor practice for a labor organization to interfere (currently, restrain or coerce) with the rights of employees to organize and collectively bargain; (2) require union recertification after a turnover in the workforce exceeding 50% of the bargaining unit; (3) require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to give 14 days advance notice before a hearing investigating an election petition; and (4) require an employer to provide the NLRB with a list consisting only of employee names and addresses of all eligible voters within seven days after an NLRB determination of the appropriate bargaining unit or an agreement on eligible voters. The bill: (1) grants union and nonunion employees the right to vote by secret ballot on whether to ratify a collective bargaining agreement or engage in a strike, (2) prohibits the use of union dues for any purpose not directly related to collective bargaining, (3) prohibits a strike without the consent of a majority of all represented employees determined by secret ballot, and (4) prohibits the use or threat of force or violence to obtain the right to represent employees. .

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Employee Rights Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1] · 154 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Rick W. Allen (R-GA), Warren Davidson (R-OH), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Ted Budd (R-NC), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Gary J. Palmer (R-AL), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), David Rouzer (R-NC), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Andy Harris (R-MD), David Kustoff (R-TN), Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX) and 94 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr2723 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115