29 U.S.C. § 175a — Assistance to plant, area, and industrywide labor management committees

(a) Establishment and operation of committees: (1) The Service must help establish and operate labor-management committees at a plant, in an area, or across an industry, if those committees: (A) were organized jointly by employers and labor organizations representing the workers there, and (B) exist to improve labor-management relationships, job security, and organizational effectiveness, including boosting economic development and involving workers in decisions about their jobs, such as better communication on shared concerns. (2) The Service must enter into contracts and make grants, as necessary or appropriate, to carry out its responsibilities under this section. (b) Restrictions on grants, contracts, or other assistance: (1) A plant labor-management committee can't get a grant, contract, or other help under this section unless the plant's workers are represented by a union and a collective-bargaining agreement is currently in effect there. (2) An area or industrywide committee can't get help unless its members include a union certified or recognized as representing the workers of an employer participating in the committee. But an employer whose workers aren't represented by a union can still take part in such a committee. (3) No committee can get a grant under this section if the Service finds that one of its purposes is to discourage workers from exercising their rights under section 157 of this title, or to interfere with collective bargaining at any plant or in any industry. (c) Establishment of office: The Service must carry out this section through an office set up specifically for that purpose. (d) Authorization of appropriations: Congress authorized $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 to carry out this section, plus whatever further amounts are necessary afterward.