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HCONRES 444 107th Congress House Labor and Employment Athletes Baseball Collective bargaining Collective bargaining agreements Industrial arbitration Professional sports Sports and Recreation

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should exert its best efforts to cause the Major League Baseball Players Association and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to enter into a contract to continue to play professional baseball games without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any coercive conduct that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.

Introduced: July 17, 2002 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 3, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Jul 17, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jul 17, 2002
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service should immediately: (1) offer its services to the Major League Baseball Players Association and the team owners who are members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues to resolve labor contract disputes over entering into a collective bargaining agreement; and (2) use its best efforts to bring the parties to agree to such contract without engaging in a strike, a lockout, or any other coercion that interferes with the playing of scheduled professional baseball games.
What's happening now October 3, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

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