House Journal: Page 244: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Connors of Polk offered the following amendment H-1030 filed by
him and moved its adoption:
H-1030
1 Amend House File 103 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, by inserting after line 7 the
3 following:
4 "The statement shall include that the right-to-work
5 means that unions and management cannot negotiate a
6 union security clause in their collective bargaining
7 agreement, that a union must represent all employees
8 in a bargaining unit whether or not they are a member
9 of the union, and that a failure to do so constitutes
10 a breach of the union's duty of fair representation
11 and subjects the union to suits for breach of duty and
12 substantial potential liability for damages. Thus, in
13 a right-to-work state, nonmembers are required by law
14 to get all the benefits of union representation, but
15 pay none of the costs.
16 The statement shall include that the right-to-work
17 law was never meant to ensure a person could keep a
18 job; rather, it was designed to weaken and destroy
19 unions and the principle of collective bargaining.
20 The statement shall include that the right-to-work law
21 represents a state-sanctioned policy of union
22 suppression.
23 The statement shall include that the right-to-work
24 law allows government interference in the ability of
25 management and labor to negotiate contracts. The
26 statement shall include that the right-to-work law is
27 not about a person's right to have a job; rather, it
28 is a collective bargaining issue. The statement shall
29 include that the right-to-work law takes away the
30 ability of unions and management to bargain over
31 whether workers should have the right to pay for the
32 services they receive from the union. The statement
33 shall include that the right-to-work law allows
34 employees at union shops to opt out of the union, and
35 thus receive the wages and benefits negotiated by
36 their coworkers without paying the dues."
Amendment H-1030 lost.
T. Taylor of Linn offered amendment H-1031 filed by him as
follows:
H-1031
1 Amend House File 103 as follows:
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