Force a House vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act to strengthen collective bargaining protections and speed first-contract negotiations for newly certified unions.
Norcross secures final support needed to force House vote on collective bargaining protections
Norcross announced he secured the 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on his Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would set deadlines for first-contract negotiations and provide mediation if needed.
Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that he has filed a discharge petition for the Faster Labor Contracts Act.
Norcross filed a discharge petition to force consideration of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would speed up first-contract negotiations for newly certified unions.
Mr. Norcross submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules
Norcross introduced a House resolution to bring up H.R. 5408, the bill to accelerate workplace time-to-contract under the National Labor Relations Act.
Mar 05, 2026, 04:37 PM | 119th Congress, 2nd Session Vote Question: On Agreeing to the Resolution Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The source is a House roll-call vote record about a war powers resolution on Iran, not a statement of a future commitment by Donald Norcross.
he has won the support of the 218 lawmakers required to force a House vote on his Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA)
Norcross says he has secured enough support to force a House vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would speed first-contract negotiations for newly certified unions.
we’re left with no choice but to file a discharge petition
Norcross says he is filing a discharge petition to force consideration of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would speed up first-contract negotiations for newly certified unions.
“For my entire lifetime, workers have had no recourse when employers make new unions wait years for their first contract. Those days are coming to an end,” Norcross said. “With the House now poised to crack down on bad-faith stall tactics from executives, the message to everyone should be clear: Workers’ rights make the American dream possible, and Democrats are capable and determined to force the issue.”
Norcross committed to forcing action on the Faster Labor Contracts Act to crack down on employer stall tactics and speed first contracts for newly certified unions.
The article reported that on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, twenty Republicans joined Democrats to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act in the House by a 230-193 vote.
A House floor vote occurred and the bill passed, satisfying the specific promise to force a House vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act.
The article described Norcross as collecting signatures for a discharge petition to force a House vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act and reported that the House bill had 17 Republican cosponsors.
Before passage, Norcross was using a concrete House procedure, a discharge petition, to try to compel the vote promised in the claim.
The article identified the Faster Labor Contracts Act as sponsored by Josh Hawley and Rep. Donald Norcross and described it as imposing a roughly four-month deadline before federal mediators could set first-contract terms.
This supports that Norcross was tied to the specific first-contract bargaining bill named in the promise and that the bill matched the collective-bargaining substance of the claim.
The article reported that Hawley and Cory Booker co-sponsored the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would require employers to begin negotiating with newly unionized workers within ten days and send unresolved disputes to binding arbitration after 120 days.
This confirms the Act’s policy mechanism: faster first-contract negotiations and arbitration backstop for newly certified unions.
The Clerk’s Roll Call Votes page is the official House system for searching roll-call votes by Congress, session, bill number, date, bill title or description, and vote question for the 119th Congress, 2nd Session.
Official House roll-call records are the primary source for verifying the reported floor vote, though the indexed page text available here did not expose the specific Faster Labor Contracts Act result.
The promised outcome was specifically to force a House vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act, not necessarily final enactment. The evidence reports that the House voted on and passed the Act on June 9, 2026 by 230-193, while Donald Norcross was still serving in the House. Other evidence ties Norcross directly to the bill as House sponsor and to the discharge-petition strategy used to compel a vote, so candidate credit is appropriate in the same federal term. Official roll-call verification was not exposed in the provided record, so confidence is below maximal but the available evidence supports delivery.
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