IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
WITHDRAWN 7/7/2010
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AN ORDINANCE enacting chapter 76, Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to collective bargaining procedures, consisting of ten new sections.
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ORDINANCE #4216, July 7, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Henry C. Rizzo and Dan Tarwater, County Legislators
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WHEREAS, it is the declared public policy or the United States, as set forth in the original text of the National Labor Relations Act, to encourage the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and to protect the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection; and,
WHEREAS, it is also the declared policy of the citizens of the State of Missouri, as expressed in the Bill of Rights contained in the Missouri Constitution they freely adopted, that employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing; and,
WHEREAS, the Missouri Supreme Court has unequivocally declared that these rights extend to public employees and that such rights include the right to bargain for an enforceable collective bargaining agreement with a public employer; and,
WHEREAS, a majority of states, having recognized the beneficial aspects of collective bargaining and the need to have a formal structure and framework within which to conduct collective bargaining, long ago enacted comprehensive public employee collective bargaining statutes; and,
WHEREAS, notwithstanding the constitutional right that Missouri's public employees enjoy to form and join unions and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing over wages, hours, and conditions of employment, the Missouri, to date, has failed to pass comprehensive legislation that provides for the exercise of these rights...
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