House Amendment 8178


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2645 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
     1  3 clause and inserting the following:
     1  4    <Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  20.9A  EMPLOYEE
     1  5 ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP == PENALTY.
     1  6    1.  It is declared to be the policy of the state of
     1  7 Iowa that no person within its boundaries shall be
     1  8 deprived of the right to work at the person's chosen
     1  9 occupation for any public employer because of
     1 10 membership in, affiliation with, withdrawal or
     1 11 expulsion from, or refusal to join, any employee
     1 12 organization, and any collective bargaining agreement
     1 13 which contravenes this policy is illegal and void.
     1 14    2.  It shall be unlawful for any public employer to
     1 15 refuse or deny employment to any person because of
     1 16 membership in, or affiliation with, or resignation or
     1 17 withdrawal from, an employee organization, or because
     1 18 of refusal to join or affiliate with an employee
     1 19 organization.
     1 20    3.  It shall be unlawful for any public employer or
     1 21 employee organization to enter into any understanding,
     1 22 contract, or agreement, whether written or oral, to
     1 23 exclude from employment members of an employee
     1 24 organization, or persons who do not belong to, or who
     1 25 refuse to join, an employee organization, or because
     1 26 of resignation or withdrawal therefrom.
     1 27    4.  It shall be unlawful for any public employer or
     1 28 employee organization, either directly or indirectly,
     1 29 or in any manner or by any means as a prerequisite to
     1 30 or a condition of employment to require any person to
     1 31 pay dues, charges, fees, contributions, fines or
     1 32 assessments to any employee organization.
     1 33    5.  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter
     1 34 to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for any public
     1 35 employer or employee organization to deduct employee
     1 36 organization dues, charges, fees, contributions, fines
     1 37 or assessments from a public employee's earnings,
     1 38 wages or compensation, unless the public employer has
     1 39 first been presented with an individual written order
     1 40 therefor signed by the public employee, which written
     1 41 order shall be terminable at any time by the public
     1 42 employee giving at least thirty days' written notice
     1 43 of such termination to the public employer.
     1 44    6.  Any public employer or employee organization,
     1 45 or any director, officer, representative, agent, or
     1 46 member thereof, who shall violate any of the
     1 47 provisions of this section or who shall aid and abet
     1 48 in such violation shall be guilty of a serious
     1 49 misdemeanor.
     1 50    7.  Additional to the penal provisions of this
     2  1 section, any public employer or employee organization,
     2  2 or any officer, representative, agent, or member
     2  3 thereof, may be restrained by injunction from doing or
     2  4 continuing to do any of the matters and things
     2  5 prohibited by this section, and all of the provisions
     2  6 of the law relating to the granting of restraining
     2  7 orders and injunctions, either temporary or permanent,
     2  8 shall be applicable.>
     2  9 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2 13 RANTS of Woodbury
     2 14 HF 2645.307 82
     2 15 ec/rj/20819

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