Bill Text: IL HB0384 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0384 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB0384-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (115 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 1701)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. Policy. It is the
the public policy of this State | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | and the purpose
of this Act to promote orderly and constructive | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | relationships between all
educational employees and their | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | employers. Unresolved disputes between the
educational | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | employees and their employers are injurious to the public, and
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| 12 | the General Assembly is therefore aware that adequate means | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | must be established
for minimizing them and providing for their | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | resolution.
It is the purpose of this Act to regulate labor | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | relations between
educational employers and educational | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | employees, including the designation
of educational employee | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | representatives, negotiation of wages, hours and
other | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | conditions of employment and resolution of disputes arising | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | under
collective bargaining agreements. The General Assembly | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | recognizes that
substantial differences exist between | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | educational employees and other
public employees as a result of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | the uniqueness of the educational work
calendar and educational | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | work duties and the traditional and historical
patterns of | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | collective bargaining between educational employers and
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| 2 | educational employees and that such differences demand | ||||||
| 3 | statutory regulation
of collective bargaining between | ||||||
| 4 | educational employers and educational
employees in a manner | ||||||
| 5 | that recognizes these differences. Recognizing that
harmonious | ||||||
| 6 | relationships are required between educational employees and
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| 7 | their employers, the General Assembly has determined that the | ||||||
| 8 | overall policy
may best be accomplished by (a) granting to | ||||||
| 9 | educational employees the right
to organize and choose freely | ||||||
| 10 | their representatives; (b) requiring educational
employers to | ||||||
| 11 | negotiate and bargain with employee organizations representing
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| 12 | educational employees and to enter into written agreements | ||||||
| 13 | evidencing the
result of such bargaining; and (c) establishing | ||||||
| 14 | procedures to provide for
the protection of the rights of the | ||||||
| 15 | educational employee, the educational
employer and the public. | ||||||
| 16 | (Source: P.A. 83-1014.)
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