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National Right-to-Work Act

To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.

Introduced Feb 12, 2025

Latest action (Feb 12, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Labor and Employment
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary

This bill would amend federal labor law to make union membership and dues payment entirely voluntary. It would remove provisions in the National Labor Relations Act that currently allow unions and employers to require employees to join unions or pay dues as a condition of employment. The bill would apply similar changes to railroad workers under the Railway Labor Act. Employees would retain the right to organize or join unions, but employers and unions could not require participation or financial contributions.

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Sponsor (1)
124 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 12, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. Feb 12, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 162 — First Amendment Accountability Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • S 533 — National Right-to-Work Act · Introduced Feb 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 1320 — Modern Worker Security Act · Introduced Feb 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 1035 — Job Protection Act · Introduced Feb 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 4154 — Employee Rights Act · Introduced Jun 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 3971 — Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 12, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 12, 2025

Mr. Wilson of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Cline, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Perry, Mr. Issa, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Weber of Texas, Ms. Hageman, Mrs. Cammack, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Hern of Oklahoma, Mr. Guest, Mr. Babin, Mrs. Hinson, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Alford, Mr. DesJarlais, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Bean of Florida, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Ciscomani, Mr. Obernolte, Mr. Self, Mr. Strong, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Collins, Mr. Ellzey, Ms. Mace, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Barr, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Steube, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Mann, Mr. Ezell, Mr. Baird, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Moore of North Carolina, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, Mr. Edwards, Ms. Letlow, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Carter of Texas, Mr. Haridopolos, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Onder, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Timmons, Mr. McDowell, Mr. McGuire, Mr. Owens, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Sessions, Ms. Maloy, Mr. Hill of Arkansas, Ms. Lee of Florida, Mr. Allen, Mr. Yakym, and Mr. Burlison) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “National Right-to-Work Act”.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT.

(a) Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 157) is amended by striking “except to” and all that follows through “authorized in section 8(a)(3)”.

(b) Section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)(3)) is amended by striking “: Provided, That” and all that follows through “retaining membership”.

(c) Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (2), by striking “or to discriminate” and all that follows through “retaining membership”; and

(2) in paragraph (5), by striking “covered by an agreement authorized under subsection (a)(3)”.

(d) Section 8(f) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(f)) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT.

Section 2 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 152) is amended by striking paragraph Eleventh. <all>

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