Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments
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Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to exclude specified types of employers and performers in the performing arts from coverage under unfair labor practice provisions prohibiting specified contracts or agreements between employers and labor organizations and prohibiting specified actions of labor organizations to force or require cessation of dealings with others, joining of labor or employer organizations, or recognition of or negotiation with labor organizations not certified as representative.
Permits such employers, excluding employers in the broadcasting or motion picture industries, to: (1) agree with a labor organization to make membership in such organization a condition of performing arts employment; and (2) make agreements with a labor organization covering performing artists even if the majority status of the organization has not yet been established.
Defines "employer" to include purchasers of musical performance services. Defines "employee" to include independent contractors engaged to perform musical services.
Referred to Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1638: Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments. 100th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HR-1638/
"H.R. 1638: Performing Arts Labor Relations Amendments." 100th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HR-1638/.
H.R. 1638, 100th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/100-HR-1638/.
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