HB27 Alabama 2010 Session

This bill would authorize employees of the political subdivisions of this state to bargain collectively through representatives regarding the terms and conditions of their employment.

This bill would provide for the procedure for collective bargaining; provide for the deduction of fees from the compensation of an employee for payment of dues to the organization that engages in collective bargaining for the employee; require the collective bargaining agreement to provide that an employee after completion of a probationary period could only be terminated for just cause and contain a grievance procedure; and authorize arbitration.

This bill would provide that a labor organization recognized as the bargaining representative of employees by the employer in existence at the effective date of this act would become the bargaining representative for the employees.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment.

Relating to collective bargaining; to authorize employees of the political subdivisions of this state to bargain collectively through representatives regarding the terms and conditions of their employment; to provide for the procedure for collective bargaining; to provide for the deduction of fees from the compensation of an employee for payment of dues to the organization that engages in collective bargaining for the employee; to require the collective bargaining agreement to provide that after completion of a probationary period an employee could only be terminated for just cause and contain a grievance procedure; to provide for arbitration; to provide that a labor organization recognized as the bargaining representative of employees by the employer in existence at the effective date of this act would become the bargaining representative for the employees; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.