Employee Free Choice Act.

WORKING DRAFT
2009
STATE OF
WYOMING
09LSO-0595

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO.
HJ0013

Employee
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C
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Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Cohee, Buchanan, Childers,
Edmonds
, Illoway, Miller, Petersen, Quarberg and Teeters and Senator(s) Landen and Ross

A Bill

for

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to
defeat the Employee Free Choice Act.

WHEREAS,

the right of employees under the National Labor Relations Act to choose whether to be represented by a labor organization by way of secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board is among the most important protections afforded under federal labor law; and

WHEREAS, the right of
employees
to choose by secret ballot their union representative is the only method that ensures a choice free of coercion and intimidation; and

WHEREAS, the recognition of a labor organization by private agreement, rather than a secret ballot election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, threatens the freedom of employees to choose whether to be represented by a
labor
organization and severely limits the ability of the National Labor Relations Board to ensure the protection of workers; and

WHEREAS, the Employee Free Choice Act, if it becomes law, would eliminate the rights of employees to vote to recognize a union by secret ballot, and replace it with the card check process, where employees are forced to make their choice in front of union supporters; and

WHEREAS, the Employee Free Choice Act would increase potential penalties against employers but not on labor organizations for certain violations of the National Labor Relations Act
, and employers would be subject to paying triple back pay and civil penalties of up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) per violation; and

WHEREAS, the United States House of Representatives passed the Employee Free Choice Act on March 1, 2007 and the legislation is now pending before the United States Senate
.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
:

Section 1.

The Legislature of the State of Wyoming urges the United States Senate to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act, which would destroy a system established more than seventy (70) years ago with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act, a system that protects the interests of both the employee and employer by ensuring that both sides have an opportunity to make their case, and by which employees are able to express their decisions in private, free from coercion and intimidation.

Section 2.

That the Secretary of State of Wyoming transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress and to the Wyoming Congressional Delegation.

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