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Protection on the Picket Line Act
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to protect employees from harassment and abuse, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow employers to discipline employees for harassment or abuse that occurs during protected labor activities such as strikes or picketing. Under current law, the NLRA generally prohibits employers from disciplining employees for engaging in protected labor activities. The bill would create an exception allowing employers to discipline employees for harassment or abuse during such activities, but only if the employer proves that the discipline was not motivated by opposition to the labor activity itself. The employer must demonstrate they would have imposed the same discipline regardless of the employee's protected labor activity. The bill shifts the burden somewhat by requiring the General Counsel to initially prove the employer had hostile animus toward the labor activity and a causal connection between the activity and the discipline.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Tommy Tuberville’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $68,223
- BEASLEY ALLEN $19,800
- RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES $13,782
- BEASLEY ALLEN LAW FIRM $13,200
- LEWIS M. CARTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY $12,100
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Tommy Tuberville → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Nov 6, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Nov 6, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 6, 2025
Mr. Tuberville (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to protect employees from harassment and abuse, and for other purposes.
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 “Protection on the Picket Line Act”.
SEC. 2. PROTECTING EMPLOYEES FROM HARASSMENT AND ABUSE.
Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(h) In any case in which an employer takes disciplinary action against an employee for harassment or abuse that occurs in the course of activity protected under section 7, it shall not be an unfair labor practice under this section for the employer to take such disciplinary action unless—
“(1) the General Counsel makes an initial showing that—
“(A) the employee engaged in activity protected under section 7;
“(B) the employer knew of that activity; and
“(C) the employer had animus against that activity, as proven with evidence sufficient to establish a causal relationship between the disciplinary action and the activity protected under section 7; and
“(2) the employer has not met the burden of persuasion to prove that the employer would have taken the same disciplinary action in the absence of the activity protected under section 7.”. <all>
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