House Passes Bill to Accelerate Labor Contract Negotiations

House lawmakers passed a bill that would impose strict bargaining timelines for employers and labor groups when negotiating a first union contract.

The US House of Representatives voted 230-193 Tuesday to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act, a union-backed bill that would alter existing federal labor law to speed up contract negotiations. It takes an average of 461 days for a union to ratify its first contract, according to Bloomberg Law data compiled from 553 first contracts from 2005-2025.

20 Republicans joined 210 Democrats in supporting the bill’s passage.

If approved by the Senate and signed by the president, the ...