Senator Alexander (R-TN) and 33 Republican Co-Sponsors Introduce Bill to Clarify Interplay Between NLRA and State Right to Work Laws
Yesterday, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) took to the floor of the Senate to introduce the "Jobs Protection Act" (S. 964). The bill, co-sponsored by Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and thirty-one other Republican Senators, would by Sen. Alexander's description:
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clarify that the NLRB would not be able to order an employer to relocate jobs from one location to another.
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guarantee an employer the right to decide where to do business within the United States.
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protect an employer’s free speech regarding the costs associated with having a unionized workforce without fear of such communication being used as evidence in an anti-union discrimination claim
The text of the bill, currently identified as "A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the applicability of such Act with respect to States that have right to work laws in effect" is not yet available online. Senator Alexander last week, however, submitted a proposed amendment to a small business bill intended to accomplish the same stated intentions. The Senator's comments today suggest that the stand-alone legislation may contain additional or broader language than the amendment previously submitted. We should know shortly.
