HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.C.R. NO. |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE GRADUATE ASSISTANTS OF the university of Hawai‘i system, with the assistance of the Hawaii labor relations board, to conduct a confidential vote on whether they are in favor of becoming public-sector unionized employees.
WHEREAS, Hawaii is not a "Right to Work" state, and once a group has unionized, members cannot opt out; and
WHEREAS, the Hawaii Labor Relations Board would normally conduct a vote should private sector employees wish to unionize; and
WHEREAS, there is interest by some graduate assistants at the University of Hawai‘i to obtain collective-bargaining rights carved out in Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 89; and
WHEREAS, while the Legislature recognizes that graduate assistants want to be heard, there is a question of whether this is a desire of the majority of the affected graduate assistants in the University of Hawai‘i system; and
WHEREAS, graduate assistants in the University of
Hawai‘i system have
taken initiative to bring forward measures for consideration relating to
unionization of graduate assistants at the University of Hawai‘i and the Legislature
finds them, under the advisement of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, to be
most capable of polling all potentially affected graduate assistants as to
whether granting public sector collective-bargaining rights for graduate
assistants reflects the will of the majority of graduate assistants at
University of Hawai‘i;
now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth
Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, the Senate
concurring, that graduate assistants in the University of Hawai‘i system are requested to
conduct a confidential vote of the graduate assistants within the University of
Hawai‘i system with
the advisement and assistance of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board on the
following questions:
(1) Do graduate assistants want to collectively bargain their pay, benefits, and other conditions of employment?;
(2) Are graduate assistants willing to pay mandatory union dues?;
(3) How will graduate assistants ensure the unit negotiators know and understand the graduate assistants' issues?; and
(4) What is the objective graduate assistants are trying to achieve?; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Labor Relations Board is requested to advise and assist the graduate assistants of the University of Hawai‘i system to conduct a confidential vote of the graduate assistants of the University of Hawai‘i system on the question of whether to form a union for the purpose of collective bargaining as public employees and to report on the results of the vote; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the graduate assistants, with assistance of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, are requested to report the graduate assistants' findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2017; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the President of the Graduate Student Organization at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, President of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Student Association, President of the University of Hawai‘i system, Chancellor of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Chancellor of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, President of the University of Hawai‘i Professional Assembly, and Chairperson of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.
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Requesting the Graduate Assistants at the University of Hawai‘i to Conduct a Confidential Vote Amongst Graduate Assistants.