H.R. 6142

Summary

H.R. 6142, the Ask the Union Members Act, was introduced in the House on Nov 19, 2025 by Rep. Mark Harris (R) with 2 co-sponsors. It was referred to Education and Workforce, and last saw action on Nov 19, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Record

Text

H.R. 6142 has 2 co-sponsors.

119 HR 6142 IH: Ask the Union Members Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-11-19
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 6142  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   November 19, 2025   Mr. Harris of North Carolina  (for himself,  Mr. Onder , and  Mr. Fine ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Education and Workforce    A BILL
To require union contract votes to be carried out through a secret ballot election, to prohibit unions from authorizing strikes unless a majority of members of the union vote to authorize a strike, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Ask the Union Members Act  .
2.
Secret ballot for ratification and strike authorization
(a)
Contract ratification requirements
Section 101(a) of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 ( 29 U.S.C. 411(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(6)
Contract ratification
A collective bargaining agreement may not be executed by a labor organization unless such agreement is approved to be ratified by a majority vote of the members of such labor organization in good standing voting in a referendum conducted by secret ballot, after providing such agreement to each member of the labor organization not later than 72 hours prior to such referendum.
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(b)
Strike authorization requirements
Section 8(b) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(b) ) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (6), by striking  and  at the end;
(2)
in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting  ; and ; and
(3)
by adding at the end the following:
(8)
to authorize a strike, unless such strike is approved to be authorized by a majority vote of the members in good standing voting in a referendum conducted by secret ballot.
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(c)
Effective date
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect beginning on the date that is 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act.

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To require union contract votes to be carried out through a secret ballot election, to prohibit unions from authorizing strikes unless a majority of members of the union vote to authorize a strike, and for other purposes.

Sponsors

Rep. Mark Harris (R) sponsors H.R. 6142, and 2 members have co-sponsored it, all of them from the day it was introduced.

Mark Harris

Rep. · R–NC-8 · Sponsor

Introduced Nov 19, 2025

Randy Fine

Rep. · R–FL-6 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 19, 2025 · Original

Robert Onder

Rep. · R–MO-3 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 19, 2025 · Original

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Committees

H.R. 6142 went before 1 committee: Education and Workforce.

Education and Workforce

Education and Workforce

Referred To · Nov 19, 2025 · 824 Bills

Actions

H.R. 6142 has taken 2 actions since Nov 19, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 6142 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

H.R. 6142 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• Ask the Union Members Act — Display Title
• Ask the Union Members Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To require union contract votes to be carried out through a secret ballot election, to prohibit unions from authorizing strikes unless a majority of members of the union vote to authorize a strike, and for other purposes. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

3 clients hired 3 firms and 23 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 6142 in 7 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Health Issues, Science/Technology, Trade (domestic/foreign), Agriculture, Budget/Appropriations, Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 23.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 6142 under Labor and Employment, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 6142’s is Labor and Employment.

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