2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 336 LABOR CABINET 336.130 Employees may organize, bargain collectively, strike, picket -- Conduct prohibited -- Effect of violence or injury to person or property.
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336.130 Employees may organize, bargain collectively, strike, picket -- Conduct
prohibited -- Effect of violence or injury to person or property.
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Employees may, free from restraint or coercion by the employers or their agents,
associate collectively for self-organization and designate collectively representatives
of their own choosing to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment to
effectively promote their own rights and general welfare. Employees, collectively
and individually, may strike, engage in peaceful picketing, and assemble
collectively for peaceful purposes.
Neither employers or their agents nor employees or associations, organizations or
groups of employees shall engage or be permitted to engage in unfair or illegal acts
or practices or resort to violence, intimidation, threats or coercion.
Except in instances where violence, personal injury, or damage to property have
occurred and such occurrence is supported by an affidavit setting forth the facts and
circumstances surrounding such incidents, the employees and their agents shall not
be restrained or enjoined from exercising the rights granted them in subsection (1)
of this section without a hearing first being held, unless the employees or their
agents are engaged in a strike in violation of a "no strike" clause in their labor
contract.
Submission of a false affidavit concerning violence, personal injury, or damage to
property shall constitute a violation of KRS 523.030. In the absence of any such
affidavit alleging violence, personal injury, or damage injunctions shall be issued
only by a Circuit Judge or other justice or judge acting as a Circuit Judge pursuant
to law.
Effective: June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. -- Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1599c28.
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