HR5338-119

What This Bill Does

The Union Auto Workers Job Protection Act adds labor and plant-location requirements to federal motor vehicle assembly contracts. For any covered contract, bid materials must include the mailing address of each plant where vehicles are made or assembled, what each plant does if multiple plants are involved, average, minimum, and maximum hourly wages at each plant, the number of temporary non-permanent employees, and disclosures of National Labor Relations Act and OSHA violations. Covered contracts must include that information, require written agency permission before an awardee moves assembly to a different plant, require same-day notice to any directly affected labor organization when permission is requested, and include an explicit neutrality policy regarding employee organizing or joining a labor organization. Covered contracts are vehicle-assembly contracts with executive agencies, including the Postal Service. Section 3 bars federal funds, including Postal Service Fund money, from being obligated or spent on delivery vehicles unless USPS issues a change order on the Oshkosh Defense contract requiring Oshkosh to agree that compliance with a bona fide union neutrality agreement is material to government payment decisions under the False Claims Act and to certify that it will execute and comply with such an agreement for all production employees within the contract scope.

Who Benefits and How

Union auto workers benefit because federal vehicle contracts must disclose wages, temporary staffing, plant locations, and labor-law violations. Labor organizations at vehicle plants benefit from same-day notice of requested plant changes and required neutrality policies. Domestic auto assembly employees benefit from transparency about whether federal vehicle work shifts to another plant. Postal Service delivery vehicle workers benefit if the Oshkosh Defense contract must include a bona fide union neutrality agreement.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Motor vehicle assembly employers bidding on federal contracts must disclose plant-level wages, temporary staffing, and labor-law violations. Oshkosh Defense must agree to and certify compliance with a bona fide union neutrality agreement before federal delivery-vehicle funds can be spent. Executive agency procurement officers must include plant-location and labor provisions in covered contracts. United States Postal Service contracting staff must issue a change order or lose authority to spend delivery-vehicle funds.

Key Provisions

• Requires federal vehicle-assembly bids to disclose plant addresses, plant roles, hourly wages, temporary worker counts, NLRA violations, and OSHA violations.
• Requires agency permission and labor-organization notice before covered vehicle assembly shifts to another plant.
• Requires federal vehicle contracts to include labor-organizing neutrality policies.
• Prohibits federal delivery-vehicle spending unless USPS changes the Oshkosh Defense contract to require bona fide union neutrality.