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		<terms:created>2005-04-19</terms:created>
		<ns:title>S. 842: Employee Free Choice Act</ns:title>
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		<ns:subject>Administrative procedure</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Fines (Penalties)</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Injunctions</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Business</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Executive departments</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Civil rights</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Disciplining of employees</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Discrimination in employment</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Employee rights</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Labor</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Labor unions</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Law</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>National Labor Relations Board</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Administrative remedies</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Dismissal of employees</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Mediation</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Unfair labor practices</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Wage restitution</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Industrial arbitration</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Collective bargaining</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Labor contracts</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service</ns:subject>
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/R000122" ns1:name="John Reed" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/L000174" ns1:name="Patrick Leahy" />
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/L000035" ns1:name="Blanche Lincoln" />
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/D000563" ns1:name="Richard Durbin" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/B000444" ns1:name="Joseph Biden" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/F000061" ns1:name="Russell Feingold" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/W000779" ns1:name="Ron Wyden" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/B001210" ns1:name="Robert Byrd" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/S000770" ns1:name="Debbie Ann Stabenow" />
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/C001042" ns1:name="Jon Corzine" />
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/D000596" ns1:name="Mark Dayton" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/P000590" ns1:name="Mark Pryor" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/S001163" ns1:name="Ken Salazar" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/O000167" ns1:name="Barack Obama" />
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		<usbill:title>S. 842: A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.</usbill:title>
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				<ns:description>Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3901)</ns:description>
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				<ns:description>Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.</ns:description>
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		<usbill:congress>109</usbill:congress>
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