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| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0223 Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 115 ILCS 5/3 | from Ch. 48, par. 1703 |
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Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical
change
in a Section concerning employee rights.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB0223 | | LRB099 03160 NHT 23168 b |
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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, |
| 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 3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (115 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1703)
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| 7 | | Sec. 3. Employee rights. (a) It shall be lawful for |
| 8 | | educational employees
to organize, form, join, or assist in |
| 9 | | employee organizations or engage in
lawful concerted |
| 10 | | activities for the
the purpose of collective bargaining or
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| 11 | | other mutual aid and protection or bargain collectively through |
| 12 | | representatives
of their own free choice and, except as |
| 13 | | provided in Section 11, such employees
shall also have the |
| 14 | | right to refrain from any or all such activities. |
| 15 | | (b) Representatives selected by educational employees in a |
| 16 | | unit appropriate
for collective bargaining purposes shall be |
| 17 | | the exclusive representative
of all the employees in such unit |
| 18 | | to
bargain on wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment. |
| 19 | | However,
any individual employee or a group of employees may at |
| 20 | | any time present
grievances to their employer and have them |
| 21 | | adjusted without the intervention
of the bargaining |
| 22 | | representative as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent
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| 23 | | with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in |