Senate Resolution 16 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2          BY  WIECK, BOETTGER, ZAUN, McKINLEY,
  1  3          NOBLE, PUTNEY, GASKILL, BEHN, LUNDBY,
  1  4            JOHNSON, McKIBBEN, ANGELO, HAHN,
  1  5          KETTERING, ZIEMAN, SEYMOUR, HARTSUCH,
  1  6                MULDER, WARD, and HOUSER
  1  7 A Resolution designating May 1 as Iowa Right to Work Day.
  1  8    WHEREAS, the federal Taft=Hartley Act of 1947
  1  9 established the rights of states to enact
  1 10 right=to=work laws for workers in their states and
  1 11 freedom to choose to prohibit labor shop agreements
  1 12 within their borders; and
  1 13    WHEREAS, right=to=work laws guarantee that a person
  1 14 cannot be compelled, as a condition of employment, to
  1 15 join or not to join a labor union, or to pay dues to a
  1 16 labor union; and
  1 17    WHEREAS, Iowa's Fifty=second General Assembly
  1 18 enshrined Iowa as a right=to=work state; and
  1 19    WHEREAS, Iowa's right=to=work law became effective
  1 20 on May 1, 1947, and has remained in full force and
  1 21 effect since that day, giving Iowa workers freedom of
  1 22 choice in the workplace; and
  1 23    WHEREAS, for nearly 60 years, this freedom has
  1 24 guaranteed the rights of Iowa workers, along with
  1 25 their fellow workers in over 20 other states, the
  1 26 power to support or refuse to support a union in their
  1 27 workplace, according to their own personal beliefs;
  1 28 and
  1 29    WHEREAS, many studies have shown that states whose
  1 30 workers benefit from the protections of the
  2  1 right=to=work law have higher growth and wage rates;
  2  2 and
  2  3    WHEREAS, economic professionals throughout the
  2  4 world have concluded that right=to=work laws promote
  2  5 economic development and growth of new and existing
  2  6 businesses; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  7    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That May 1 be
  2  8 designated "Iowa Right to Work Day", and
  2  9    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Senate encourages
  2 10 the workers of Iowa to recognize and celebrate the
  2 11 importance of this day to ensure individual choice in
  2 12 employment for all workers.
  2 13 LSB 1608XS 82
  2 14 ec:rj/es/88