Bill Text: HI HB2103 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Legislative Employees; Unionization

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-29 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on LMG with Representative(s) Ching, Finnegan, Marumoto, Thielen, Ward voting no (5) and Representative(s) Belatti, Herkes excused (2). [HB2103 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2103-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  7-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2103

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2103 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to promote the ability of employees to organize and collectively bargain the terms of employment, by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing non-supervisory legislative employees to organize through a streamlined union certification process when a majority of employees sign union authorization cards;

 

     (2)  Providing an expedited process for initial collective bargaining agreements for these employees; and

 

     (3)  Establishing a separate collective bargaining unit for these employees.

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, testified in support of this bill with amendments.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations opposed this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining submitted comments.

 

     By allowing non-supervisory legislative employees to unionize, this bill provides these employees a larger role in the decisions that affect working conditions.  However, there are questions regarding the necessity of the streamlined union certification and expedited collective bargaining provisions of this bill.  There are also practical considerations with establishing a single bargaining unit for all types of non-supervisory legislative employees, while existing bargaining units under section 89-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are arranged by job classification or profession.  Your Committee is aware of these issues and is moving this bill along for further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2103 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair