New Mexico HB 85: UNION SECURITY AGREEMENTS

Bill Text

HB0085 

HOUSE BILL 85

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2019

INTRODUCED BY

Daymon Ely and Andrea Romero

AN ACT

RELATING TO STATE AUTHORITY UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS 
ACT; ALLOWING UNION MEMBERSHIP TO BE REQUIRED AS A CONDITION OF 
EMPLOYMENT; ESTABLISHING THAT THE STATE HAS EXCLUSIVE 
JURISDICTION TO PROHIBIT UNION SECURITY AGREEMENTS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

 SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] LABOR RELATIONS--UNION SECURITY 
AGREEMENTS.--

 A. The purpose of this section is for the state to 
exercise the limited authority reserved to the states under 
Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act.

 B. An employer or labor organization anywhere in 
the state may execute and apply an agreement requiring 
membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment 
to the full extent allowed by federal law. 

 C. The state has exclusive jurisdiction to prohibit 
the negotiation, execution or application of agreements 
requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of 
employment in New Mexico.

 D. A city, county, home rule municipality or other 
political subdivision of the state shall not adopt nor continue 
in effect any ordinance, rule, regulation, resolution or 
statute that prohibits the negotiation, execution or 
application of agreements requiring membership in a labor 
organization as a condition of employment in New Mexico.

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