Bill Text: IL SB0491 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-31 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0491 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB0491-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (115 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 1701)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. Policy. It is the
the public policy of this State | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | and the purpose
of this Act to promote orderly and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | constructive relationships between all
educational employees | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | and their employers. Unresolved disputes between the
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| 11 | educational employees and their employers are injurious to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | public, and
the General Assembly is therefore aware that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | adequate means must be established
for minimizing them and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | providing for their resolution.
It is the purpose of this Act | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | to regulate labor relations between
educational employers and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | educational employees, including the designation
of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | educational employee representatives, negotiation of wages, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | hours and
other conditions of employment and resolution of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | disputes arising under
collective bargaining agreements. The | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | General Assembly recognizes that
substantial differences exist | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | between educational employees and other
public employees as a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | result of the uniqueness of the educational work
calendar and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | educational work duties and the traditional and historical
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| 1 | patterns of collective bargaining between educational | ||||||
| 2 | employers and
educational employees and that such differences | ||||||
| 3 | demand statutory regulation
of collective bargaining between | ||||||
| 4 | educational employers and educational
employees in a manner | ||||||
| 5 | that recognizes these differences. Recognizing that
harmonious | ||||||
| 6 | relationships are required between educational employees and
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| 7 | their employers, the General Assembly has determined that the | ||||||
| 8 | overall policy
may best be accomplished by (a) granting to | ||||||
| 9 | educational employees the right
to organize and choose freely | ||||||
| 10 | their representatives; (b) requiring educational
employers to | ||||||
| 11 | negotiate and bargain with employee organizations representing
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| 12 | educational employees and to enter into written agreements | ||||||
| 13 | evidencing the
result of such bargaining; and (c) establishing | ||||||
| 14 | procedures to provide for
the protection of the rights of the | ||||||
| 15 | educational employee, the educational
employer and the public. | ||||||
| 16 | (Source: P.A. 83-1014.)
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