96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0651


 
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton
 
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115 ILCS 5/1
 from Ch. 48, par. 1701







 Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
















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 AN ACT concerning education.


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 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

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represented in the General Assembly:


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 Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is 
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amended by changing Section 1 as follows:




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 (115 ILCS 5/1) (from Ch. 48, par. 1701)



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 Sec. 1. Policy. It is the
the public policy of this State 
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and the purpose
of this Act to promote orderly and constructive 
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relationships between all
educational employees and their 
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employers. Unresolved disputes between the
educational 
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employees and their employers are injurious to the public, and

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the General Assembly is therefore aware that adequate means 
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must be established
for minimizing them and providing for their 
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resolution.
It is the purpose of this Act to regulate labor 
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relations between
educational employers and educational 
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employees, including the designation
of educational employee 
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representatives, negotiation of wages, hours and
other 
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conditions of employment and resolution of disputes arising 
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under
collective bargaining agreements. The General Assembly 
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recognizes that
substantial differences exist between 
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educational employees and other
public employees as a result of 
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the uniqueness of the educational work
calendar and educational 
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work duties and the traditional and historical
patterns of 
 


 






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collective bargaining between educational employers and

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educational employees and that such differences demand 
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statutory regulation
of collective bargaining between 
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educational employers and educational
employees in a manner 
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that recognizes these differences. Recognizing that
harmonious 
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relationships are required between educational employees and

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their employers, the General Assembly has determined that the 
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overall policy
may best be accomplished by (a) granting to 
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educational employees the right
to organize and choose freely 
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their representatives; (b) requiring educational
employers to 
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negotiate and bargain with employee organizations representing

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educational employees and to enter into written agreements 
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evidencing the
result of such bargaining; and (c) establishing 
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procedures to provide for
the protection of the rights of the 
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educational employee, the educational
employer and the public.
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(Source: P.A. 83-1014.)