Building and Construction Industry Labor Law Amendments of 1987

Summary

Construction Industry Labor Law Amendments of 1985 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that in the construction industry two or more business entities engaged in the same or similar work shall be deemed a single employer if they have: (1) substantial common ownership; (2) common management; or (3) common control. Applies the terms of a collective bargaining agreement regarding employees of such business entities to all other business entities comprising the same single employer within the geographical area covered by the agreement. States that collective bargaining agreements may only be repudiated after the National Labor Relations Board certifies election results in which a majority of the employees select a bargaining representative other than the representative with whom such agreement was made.

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Timeline

1. 6 January 1987

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 6 January 1987

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 6 January 1987

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 23 February 1987

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.

   Source: Committee

5. 4 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee Hearings Held.

   Source: Committee

6. 31 March 1987

   Committee

   Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).

   Source: Committee

7. 31 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

   Source: Committee

8. 22 April 1987

   Committee

   Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From Labor.

   Source: Committee

9. 19 May 1987

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

   Source: Committee

10. 19 May 1987

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

11. 8 June 1987

    Calendars

    Placed on Union Calendar No: 85.

    Source: Calendars

12. 8 June 1987

    Reported

    Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Education and Labor. Report No: 100-137.

    Source: Committee

13. 8 June 1987

    Reported

    Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Education and Labor. Report No: 100-137.

    Source: Committee

14. 16 June 1987

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.196 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

15. 16 June 1987

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted a Modified Open Rule Providing One Hour of General Debate.

    Source: Floor

16. 17 June 1987

    Floor

    Called up by House by Rule.

    Source: Floor

17. 17 June 1987

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

18. 17 June 1987

    Failed

    Motion to Recommit Failed in House by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

19. 17 June 1987

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 227 - 197 (Record Vote No: 191).

    Source: Floor

20. 17 June 1987

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 227 - 197 (Record Vote No: 191).

    Source: Floor

21. 19 June 1987

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

    Source: Calendars

22. 19 June 1987

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate, read the first time.

    Source: IntroReferral

23. 23 June 1987

    Calendars

    Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 202.

    Source: Calendars

Votes

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Documents

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 17 June 1987

  Open at official source

• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 8 June 1987

  Open at official source

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• related to → A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H. R. 281) to amend the National Labor Relations Act to increase the stability of collective bargaining in the building and construction industry.
• amends ← An amendment to provide that when the terms of a collective bargaining agreement are applied to a business entity and its labor organization in a situation involving double breasting, the labor organization must first have an opportunity to hold an NLRB certified election to indicate that the labor organization has the support of a majority of the employees employed in all such business entities for such application.
• amends ← An amendment to provide that the duty to bargain collectively shall not apply if a labor organization has as an officer or former officer any person who, within the previous 5 years, has been convicted of racketeering or bribery of any public official.
• amends ← An amendment directing the GAO to file a report within 90 days of the enactment of this Act concerning the effect of this Act on: ? 1) the competitiveness of the U.S. businesses engaged in the building and construction industry and other related businesses with respect to foreign businesses engaged in such industry; ? 2) the employment of American workers who are members of labor organizations and who are employed in such industry; and, ? 3) costs incurred by U.S. businesses which contract with businesses engaged in the building and construction industry.
• amends ← An amendment to provide for application of anti-double breasting rules to only those businesses in the construction industry where there is substantial commonality based on common management, central control over labor relations, interrelation of operations and common ownership. Additionaly, the amendment seeks to narrow the definition of the term "single employer" with regard to its use in the provisions of the bill prohibiting creation of double-breasted operations.
• amends ← An amendment to provide that the duty to bargain collectively does not apply to labor organizations having officers or former officers known by the NLRB to have directly engaged in or encouraged the use of violence.
• amends ← An amendment to define a "single employer" as any two or more business entities engaged primarily in the building and construction industry, performing work within the geographical area covered by a collective bargaining agreement to which any of the entities is a party, performing building or construction work of the type described in such agreement, and having substantial commonality based upon the following four factors: 1) common management; 2) centralized control of labor; 3) interrelation of operations, and 4) common ownership. ? Further, such commonality will be presumed in cases where there are practices of; 1)transfer among the entities of employees performing work described in the collective bargaining agreement; 2) direct competition among the entities in submitting bids for the same work, or 3) deprivation of work by one entity against another.
• amends ← An amendment to provide that the terms and provisions of a contractor-subcontractor relationship between two or more business entities working at a construction site shall not be deemed to create a single employer or be considered as evidence of direct or indirect common management or control.
• amends ← An amendment to state the sense of Congress that, under the provisions set forth in this Act, violence and coercion are inimicable to the collective bargaining process, and that employers and labor organizations in the building and construction industry, in fulfilling the principal objective of this Act to increase the stability of collective bargaining in the building and construction industry, should never use or condone the use of violence.

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