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AJR-62 Labor negotiations: waterfront workers.(2001-2002)

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2001–2002 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Joint Resolution
No. 62

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Lowenthal, Oropeza

August 16, 2002

Relative to labor negotiations by California waterfront workers.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AJR 62, as introduced, Lowenthal. Labor negotiations: waterfront workers.
This measure would declare the opposition of the California Legislature to any action by the President and the administration that would impose a federal injunction against waterfront workers, remove waterfront workers from the coverage of the National Labor Relations Act, or send military personnel to west coast docks to assist in a lockout of waterfront workers.
Fiscal Committee: NO  
WHEREAS, California ports are a crucial part of the global and local economies, and the labor negotiations that concern their operations are closely watched by businesses and governments; and
Whereas, The jobs in California ports are of high quality, due to agreements that have been negotiated over the last fifty years by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and organized labor; and
Whereas, The legal, established collective bargaining process, including the right to strike, is a right of the waterfront union members under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935; and
Whereas, The Bush administration has announced, through Department of Labor officials, that it may invoke a national economic emergency in order to forestall a strike under the Taft-Hartley Act, or may use the National Guard to prevent such a strike; and
Whereas, The use of this power, or even the announcement of the intentions to use it, will and has upset what has been, up until now, a level playing field between management and labor; now therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California opposes any action by the President and the administration that would impose a Taft-Hartley injunction against waterfront unions, would remove union workers from coverage by the National Labor Relations Act, or would send military personnel to the West Coast docks to assist in a lockout of waterfront union workers; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.