Sec. 2. Streamlining union certification
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Section 9(c) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 159(c) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, whenever a petition shall have been filed by an employee or group of employees or any individual or labor organization acting in their behalf alleging that a majority of employees in a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining wish to be represented by an individual or labor organization for such purposes, the Board shall investigate the petition.
If the Board finds that a majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining has signed valid authorizations designating the individual or labor organization specified in the petition as their bargaining representative and that no other individual or labor organization is currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit, the Board shall not direct an election but shall certify the individual or labor organization as the representative described in subsection (a).
The Board shall develop guidelines and procedures for the designation by employees of a bargaining representative in the manner described in paragraph (6). Such guidelines and procedures shall include— model collective bargaining authorization language that may be used for purposes of making the designations described in paragraph (6); and procedures to be used by the Board to establish the validity of signed authorizations designating bargaining representatives. . Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 153(b) ) is amended, in the second sentence— by striking and to and inserting to ; and by striking and certify the results thereof, and inserting , and to issue certifications as provided for in that section, .
Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(b) ) is amended— in paragraph (7)(B) by striking , or and inserting or a petition has been filed under section 9(c)(6), or ; and in paragraph (7)(C) by striking when such a petition has been filed and inserting when such a petition other than a petition under section 9(c)(6) has been filed .
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