The Oregon state employee., July 01, 1946, Page 8, Image 8

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Employees Petition for Bargaining Rights
The following resolution was passed
by the OSEA Board of Directors at a
meeting on June 18, 1946. The resolu­
tion was presented to Governor Earl
Snell:
W HEREAS:
The National Labor Relations Act
provides for the designation of bar­
gaining • representatives of employee
groups for the purpose of bargaining
collectively with employers concerning
wages, hours and other working con­
ditions, and
W HEREAS:
In certain essential respects Public
Administration is different from pri­
vate employers and the public service
is different from private employment,
so that the same application of the N a­
tional Labor Relations Act, as is ac­
corded industry, can not be expected
for either the State as an employer or
the State service as employees, and
W HEREAS:
Ample latitude exists in public ser­
vice for negotiations and consultation
between the public administration and
public employees or their representa­
tives, regarding conditions of employ­
ment and the good of the service, and
for arriving at informal understanding
and cooperative arrangements, which,
although not binding as formal con­
tracts, may be fully respected and kept
in good faith, because they represent
reasonable solution of issues considered,
and
W HEREAS:
An independent Association of em­
ployees, whose membership is restricted
to state employees and without outside
ties or affiliation has a freedom of ac­
tion and a background and understand­
ing of state service problems best fit­
ted to assure satisfactory negotiations,
arrangements and observance, and
W HEREAS:
The Oregon State Employees Associ
ation is an independent Association d
state employees, incorporated under the
laws of the State of Oregon, organized
to foster and protect the integrity and
quality of the state service and admin­
istration, and restricting its interests
and efforts to problems affecting con­
ditions of the Civil Service, and re­
presenting in its membership all
branches and departments of the state
service,
NOW TH EREFO RE BE IT
RESOLVED:
By the Oregon State Employees As­
sociation, through its Board of Direc­
tors in regular session assembled, that
the Oregon State Employees Associa­
tion respectively petition the Governor
of the State of Oregon to recognize anc
designate the Oregon State Employee!
Association as the bargaining represen­
tative of all the employees of the State
of Oregon, for the purpose of such bar­
gaining collectively under the National
Labor Relations A ct as the State gov­
ernment is permitted within the ad­
ministrations discretion and grants by
the constitution and laws of the State,
and
BE IT FU R TH ER RESOLVED:
That a copy of this resolution signed
by the Association President and Secre­
tary and sealed with the association
seal be respectfully delivered to the
Governor of the State of Oregon by the
Association Executive Secretary, For­
rest V. Stewart.
A comfortable old age is the reward
of a well-spent youth. Instead of its
bringing sad and melancholy prospects
of decay, it should give us hopes of
eternal youth in a better world.
— R. Palmer.