To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to require labor organizations to make certain disclosures to its members, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires labor organizations to give members additional rights disclosures and restricts use of dues for nonrepresentational activities unless workers provide renewed written authorization.
Who Benefits and How
Union members and required fee payers could receive more information about their rights and greater control over dues used for nonrepresentational purposes.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Labor organizations would face new disclosure, website, and certification requirements and tighter limits on spending dues without written consent.
Key Provisions
- Requires unions to provide members with copies and summaries of LMRDA rights, religious-accommodation rights, and Beck rights.
- Requires annual delivery, website posting, and Department of Labor certification.
- Bars use of dues for nonrepresentational activities without written authorization that expires within one year and may not auto-renew.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires labor organizations to give members additional rights disclosures and restricts use of dues for nonrepresentational activities unless workers provide renewed written authorization.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Civil Rights, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires labor organizations to give members additional rights disclosures and restricts use of dues for nonrepresentational activities unless workers provide renewed written authorization.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Union members and other workers paying dues or fees to labor organizations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Labor organizations subject to new disclosure and spending-consent restrictions
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Cassidy (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Labor organizations required to prepare, deliver, post, and certify the disclosures, Labor organizations seeking to fund nonrepresentational activities with dues or fees, Union members and fee payers controlling spending on nonrepresentational activities
Positive-direction: Union members and fee payers controlling spending on nonrepresentational activities, Union members and other workers paying dues or fees
Negative-direction: Labor organizations required to prepare, deliver, post, and certify the disclosures, Labor organizations seeking to fund nonrepresentational activities with dues or fees
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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