Bill Text: NY A00906 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 906

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes the right to strike as an employee right.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-26 - opinion referred to judiciary [A00906 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00906-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           906

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. GALLAGHER, FORREST, MITAYNES, MAMDANI, RAMOS --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to section 17 of article 1 of  the  constitution,
          in relation to employee's collective bargaining rights

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 17 of article
     2  1 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    §  17.  Labor  of  human  beings  is not a commodity nor an article of
     4  commerce and shall never be so considered or construed.
     5    No laborer, worker or mechanic, in the employ of a contractor or  sub-
     6  contractor  engaged  in  the  performance  of  any public work, shall be
     7  permitted to work more than eight hours in any day  or  more  than  five
     8  days  in any week, except in cases of extraordinary emergency; nor shall
     9  he or she be paid less than the rate of wages  prevailing  in  the  same
    10  trade  or  occupation in the locality within the state where such public
    11  work is to be situated, erected or used.
    12    Employees shall have the right to organize,  strike,  and  to  bargain
    13  collectively through representatives of their own choosing.
    14    §  2.  Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing be referred
    15  to the first  regular  legislative  session  convening  after  the  next
    16  succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conform-
    17  ity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for 3
    18  months previous to the time of such election.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89006-01-3