---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 414"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "414"
heading: "Right to copies of collective bargaining agreements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/414"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter II — Bill of Rights of Members of Labor Organizations"
---

# §414. Right to copies of collective bargaining agreements


It shall be the duty of the [secretary](/usc/29/402.md?p=p) or corresponding principal [officer](/usc/29/402.md?p=n) of each [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i), in the case of a local [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i), to forward a copy of each collective bargaining agreement made by such [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) with any [employer](/usc/29/402.md?p=e) to any [employee](/usc/29/402.md?p=f) who requests such a copy and whose rights as such [employee](/usc/29/402.md?p=f) are directly affected by such agreement, and in the case of a [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) other than a local [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i), to forward a copy of any such agreement to each constituent unit which has members directly affected by such agreement; and such [officer](/usc/29/402.md?p=n) shall maintain at the principal office of the [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) of which he is an [officer](/usc/29/402.md?p=n) copies of any such agreement made or received by such [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i), which copies shall be available for inspection by any member or by any [employee](/usc/29/402.md?p=f) whose rights are affected by such agreement. The provisions of [section 440 of this title](/usc/29/440.md) shall be applicable in the enforcement of this section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title I, § 104, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 523.)