Bill Text: CA AJR51 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Joint Resolution 51 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Federal employee rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 55-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-08-31 - From committee: Ordered to third reading. [AJR51 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AJR51-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Joint Resolution

No. 51

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooper

August 07, 2018

Relative to rights of federal employees.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AJR 51, as introduced, Cooper. Federal employee rights.

This measure would urge President Donald J. Trump to rescind three Executive orders issued on May 25, 2018, providing guidance to federal agencies regarding federal employees’ representation, collective bargaining, and due process rights.

Fiscal Committee: NO

WHEREAS, Three Executive orders were issued on May 25, 2018, that have the effect of harming federal employees by (1) targeting federal employee rights and union representation in the workplace; (2) drastically restricting use of official time to perform legally mandated representation of employees in the workplace; and (3) unlawfully restricting collective bargaining subjects and procedures to negotiate workplace protocols; and

WHEREAS, 140,000 Californians serve in the federal government, more than 30 percent of whom are veterans; and

WHEREAS, Federal employees in California care for our veterans, process social security claims, keep our air, water, and food safe, protect the skies, and serve our warfighters; and

WHEREAS, The Executive orders silence veterans, law enforcement officers, and other frontline federal workers and intend to strip federal employees of their decades-old rights to representation from the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978; and

WHEREAS, Our government is built on a system of checks and balances to prevent any one person or group from having too much influence. The federal government works best when management and labor work collaboratively to ensure the missions of the agencies are met; and

WHEREAS, The Executive orders will only create inefficiencies and hinder the ability of dedicated federal employees to deliver services to the American public in an efficient and effective manner; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature urges President Donald J. Trump to rescind the three Executive orders issued on May 25, 2018, which provide guidance to federal agencies regarding federal employees’ representation, collective bargaining, and due process rights; 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 and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, to the Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the Unites States.