A bill to amend the Walsh-Healey Act to provide for a fact-finding panel to determine the cause of work stoppages to provide that the Federal Government may, in certain cases, terminate contracts with contractors who are at fault in causing such work stoppages.

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Amends the Walsh-Healey Act to deny until a collective bargaining agreement is concluded further progress payments and the exercising of any options to (certain Federal contractors and subcontractors found by a factfinding panel) appointed by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to have control over, or to have caused, a work stoppage. Authorizes termination of a contract with respect to which such a work stoppage occurs if no collective bargaining agreement is signed within 45 days of the stoppage and the contractor or subcontractor has failed to meet its obligations in a timely fashion during the period.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 March 1977

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