Bill Text: IL SB2347 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employee rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2347 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB2347-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB2347 Introduced 1/24/2018, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
115 ILCS 5/3 from Ch. 48, par. 1703
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employee rights.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
(115 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1703)
Sec. 3. Employee rights.
(a) It shall be lawful for educational employees to
organize, form, join, or assist in employee organizations or
engage in lawful concerted activities for the the purpose of
collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection or
bargain collectively through representatives of their own free
choice and, except as provided in Section 11, such employees
shall also have the right to refrain from any or all such
activities.
(b) Representatives selected by educational employees in a
unit appropriate for collective bargaining purposes shall be
the exclusive representative of all the employees in such unit
to bargain on wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment.
However, any individual employee or a group of employees may at
any time present grievances to their employer and have them
adjusted without the intervention of the bargaining
representative as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent

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with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in
effect, provided that the bargaining representative has been
given an opportunity to be present at such adjustment.
(Source: P.A. 83-1014.)