SB2177 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 11514 WGH 21995 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2177

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Christine Radogno

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

115 ILCS 5/3

from Ch. 48, par. 1703

Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employee rights.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(115 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1703)

Sec. 3. Employee rights. (a) It shall be lawful for educational employees to organize, form, join, or assist in employee organizations or engage in lawful concerted activities for the the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection or bargain collectively through representatives of their own free choice and, except as provided in Section 11, such employees shall also have the right to refrain from any or all such activities.

(b) Representatives selected by educational employees in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining purposes shall be the exclusive representative of all the employees in such unit to bargain on wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment. However, any individual employee or a group of employees may at any time present grievances to their employer and have them adjusted without the intervention of the bargaining representative as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in effect, provided that the bargaining representative has been given an opportunity to be present at such adjustment.

(Source: P.A. 83-1014.)