Sponsor
Rick W. Allen
Representative · R-GA
Representative · R-GA
The bill strengthens and clarifies secret‑ballot protections and regulatory rules for union elections—increasing certainty and protecting individual choice—while narrowing faster voluntary recognition routes and raising administrative and compliance burdens for unions, employers, and the federal government.
Workers (including people with disabilities) keep a clear right to union representation confirmed by secret-ballot elections before employers must recognize or bargain with a union, protecting individual choice in unionization.
Employees in units where employers already recognized a union before this law remain covered by those existing bargaining relationships, preserving stability for current unionized workplaces.
The NLRB must issue updated regulations quickly (six-month deadline), giving unions, employers, and contractors clearer, up-to-date rules and reducing short‑term legal/regulatory uncertainty about election procedures.
Workers and unions lose voluntary, faster recognition routes (like card-check and employer neutrality), narrowing pathways to organize and making union formation harder and slower.
Employers, unions, and the NLRB face increased administrative burdens and longer organizing/decertification timelines, and taxpayers may bear higher federal costs from more Board‑run elections and decertifications.
Requiring the NLRB to complete rulemaking within six months could strain agency resources, risk rushed or lower‑quality rulemaking, and delay other casework handled by federal employees.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Makes NLRB‑supervised secret‑ballot elections the required method for union recognition and decertification; bans voluntary recognition based on card‑checks for new campaigns.
Official title: To amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure the right of employees to a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.
Introduced March 21, 2025 by Rick W. Allen · Last progress March 21, 2025
Requires that private-sector union representation and decertification be determined by secret‑ballot elections run by the National Labor Relations Board. The bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to bar employer recognition or bargaining based on voluntary recognition or card-signing campaigns and directs the NLRB to revise its regulations within six months; existing collective‑bargaining relationships are exempted.