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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.