The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, composed of more than 600 major business organizations including Associated Builders and Contractors, has sent a letter to Congress regarding “serious concerns” found in the proposed tax and spending reconciliation package.

These concerns are related to the National Labor Relations Act within the bill. The letter states that the proposed provisions create new civil monetary penalties for violations of the NLRA, impose personal liability on directors and officers for such violations, mandate neutrality agreements in union organizing campaigns for entities seeking certain grants and provide funding for an electronic voting system.

According to the letter, “These provisions are significant, substantive policy changes and are therefore inappropriate for inclusion in the reconciliation bill,” and “the implementation of these policies on the employer and employee communities are substantial and radical changes to current law.”

The provisions will be subject to the Senate’s Byrd Rule that removes extraneous measures from any reconciliation package, and ABC is continuing to work with senators and Hill staff against the inclusion of these revisions.