HR 6080 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Workers' Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018

Introduced Jun 13, 2018 Originated House Sponsor Robert C. "Bobby" Scott D-VA

Latest action · Oct 19, 2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJun 13, 2018
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Workers' Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018

This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act (NRLA) and related labor laws to extend protections to union workers. Specifically, it:

revises the definition of "employee" and "supervisor" to prevent employers from removing employees from the protections of the labor laws,
prohibits employers from interfering with certain rights granted to employees under the NLRA,
expands unfair labor practices to include prohibitions against replacement of worker who strike or discrimination against them,
imposes new penalties against employers who violate labor law requirements,
allows workers to bring civil actions against employers for labor law violations and unfair labor practices,
requires certain disclosures with respect to worker wages, and
requires contractors seeking federal contracts over $500,000 to disclose labor law violations when applying for such contracts.

Cosponsors 79

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 13, 2018 to Dec 20, 2018; 34 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-TX	Al Green	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-PA	Conor Lamb	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-MI	Debbie Dingell	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-NJ	Donald Norcross	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	John Garamendi	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Ro Khanna	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Jun 13, 2018
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Jun 14, 2018
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jun 14, 2018
D-FL	Darren Soto		Jun 14, 2018
D-TX	Gene Green		Jun 14, 2018
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Jun 14, 2018
D-CO	Jared Polis		Jun 14, 2018
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jun 14, 2018
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jun 14, 2018
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jun 14, 2018
D-NV	Ruben J. Kihuen		Jun 14, 2018
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jun 19, 2018
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Jun 19, 2018
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jun 19, 2018
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jun 22, 2018
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Jul 10, 2018
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 10, 2018
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jul 10, 2018
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 10, 2018
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		Jul 17, 2018
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jul 17, 2018
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Jul 17, 2018
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 23, 2018
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jul 25, 2018
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Aug 7, 2018
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Aug 17, 2018
D-IN	André Carson		Aug 17, 2018
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Aug 17, 2018
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Aug 17, 2018
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Aug 17, 2018
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Aug 17, 2018
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Aug 24, 2018
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Sep 5, 2018
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Sep 12, 2018
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 20, 2018
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Sep 20, 2018
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Sep 20, 2018
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Sep 25, 2018
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Sep 25, 2018
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Sep 27, 2018
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Oct 23, 2018
D-IL	Bill Foster		Oct 26, 2018
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Nov 6, 2018
D-VT	Peter Welch		Nov 6, 2018
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Nov 6, 2018
D-PA	Susan Wild		Dec 20, 2018

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jun 13, 2018
	Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee	Referred Oct 19, 2018
	Workforce Protections Subcommittee	Referred Oct 19, 2018
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred Jun 13, 2018

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Oct 19, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct 19, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Jun 13, 2018Introduced in House
Jun 13, 2018Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 98, June 13, 2018, page H5153.

Related bills 6

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 2069	Protecting Workers' Freedom to Organize Act	Related bill	Nov 2, 2017
S 2143	WAGE Act	Related bill	Nov 16, 2017
HR 2654	Adjusting Davis-Bacon for Inflation Act	Related bill	May 25, 2017
S 3064	Workers' Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018	Related bill	Jun 13, 2018
S 3077	Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Act of 2018	Related bill	Jun 14, 2018

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Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, 1959, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Workers' Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 13, 2018Introduced in House

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