House Amendment 8183


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend the amendment, H=8164, to House File 2645 as
     1  2 follows:
     1  3 #1.  By striking page 1, line 2, through page 14,
     1  4 line 15, and inserting the following:
     1  5    <#   .  Page 1, by inserting after line 32 the
     1  6 following:
     1  7    <Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  20.9A  EMPLOYEE
     1  8 ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP == PENALTY.
     1  9    1.  It is declared to be the policy of the state of
     1 10 Iowa that no person within its boundaries shall be
     1 11 deprived of the right to work at the person's chosen
     1 12 occupation for any public employer because of
     1 13 membership in, affiliation with, withdrawal or
     1 14 expulsion from, or refusal to join, any employee
     1 15 organization, and any collective bargaining agreement
     1 16 which contravenes this policy is illegal and void.
     1 17    2.  It shall be unlawful for any public employer to
     1 18 refuse or deny employment to any person because of
     1 19 membership in, or affiliation with, or resignation or
     1 20 withdrawal from, an employee organization, or because
     1 21 of refusal to join or affiliate with an employee
     1 22 organization.
     1 23    3.  It shall be unlawful for any public employer or
     1 24 employee organization to enter into any understanding,
     1 25 contract, or agreement, whether written or oral, to
     1 26 exclude from employment members of an employee
     1 27 organization, or persons who do not belong to, or who
     1 28 refuse to join, an employee organization, or because
     1 29 of resignation or withdrawal therefrom.
     1 30    4.  It shall be unlawful for any public employer or
     1 31 employee organization, either directly or indirectly,
     1 32 or in any manner or by any means as a prerequisite to
     1 33 or a condition of employment to require any person to
     1 34 pay dues, charges, fees, contributions, fines or
     1 35 assessments to any employee organization.
     1 36    5.  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter
     1 37 to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for any public
     1 38 employer or employee organization to deduct employee
     1 39 organization dues, charges, fees, contributions, fines
     1 40 or assessments from a public employee's earnings,
     1 41 wages or compensation, unless the public employer has
     1 42 first been presented with an individual written order
     1 43 therefor signed by the public employee, which written
     1 44 order shall be terminable at any time by the public
     1 45 employee giving at least thirty days' written notice
     1 46 of such termination to the public employer.
     1 47    6.  Any public employer or employee organization,
     1 48 or any director, officer, representative, agent, or
     1 49 member thereof, who shall violate any of the
     1 50 provisions of this section or who shall aid and abet
     2  1 in such violation shall be guilty of a serious
     2  2 misdemeanor.
     2  3    7.  Additional to the penal provisions of this
     2  4 section, any public employer or employee organization,
     2  5 or any officer, representative, agent, or member
     2  6 thereof, may be restrained by injunction from doing or
     2  7 continuing to do any of the matters and things
     2  8 prohibited by this section, and all of the provisions
     2  9 of the law relating to the granting of restraining
     2 10 orders and injunctions, either temporary or permanent,
     2 11 shall be applicable.>>
     2 12 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2 15                               
     2 16 RANTS of Woodbury
     2 17 HF 2645.308 82
     2 18 ec/rj/20818

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