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The bill restores eligibility for some individuals to hold union office and cleans up an obsolete statutory reference—improving candidate rights and legal clarity in principle—while creating modest risks of governance problems and transitional legal uncertainty for unions, employees, and employers.
Union members and potential candidates: the bill removes a statutory prohibition so some individuals previously barred may again be eligible to hold union office, restoring candidacy rights for affected union participants.
Unions and government actors: the bill removes an obsolete cross‑reference, reducing legal confusion and simplifying interpretation and enforcement of the LMRA provisions.
Union members, employees, and employers: allowing previously barred persons to hold union office could increase the risk of corruption or conflicts of interest within union leadership, potentially harming member representation or employer relations.
Employers, unions, and third parties: removing the prohibition may create transitional legal uncertainty about who qualifies to hold union leadership, raising the risk of litigation and compliance costs during implementation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals 29 U.S.C. §504 and removes a cross-reference in 29 U.S.C. §481(e), eliminating a federal statutory bar on certain persons holding union office.
Introduced September 2, 2025 by Summer Lee · Last progress September 2, 2025
Repeals a federal statute that barred certain people from holding offices in labor organizations and removes a now-obsolete cross-reference in another labor law provision. The change deletes that statutory prohibition without creating new funding, programs, or implementation steps in the text provided.