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345.020 Policy and purpose.
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Whereas, the denial by some public employers of the right of firefighters to
organize and the refusal by such employers to accept the procedure of collective
bargaining leads to various forms of strife and unrest, with the consequent effect of
obstructing public business. Unresolved disputes in the public service are injurious
to the public, the governmental agencies involved, and the firefighters.
Whereas, experience has proved that protection by law of the right of public
employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards the public business from
injury, impairment, or interruptions, and promotes public business by removing
certain recognized sources of strife and unrest, by encouraging practices
fundamental to the friendly adjustment of disputes arising out of differences as to
wages, hours, or other working conditions, and by creating equality of bargaining
power between employers and employees.
Whereas, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Kentucky to eliminate
the causes of certain substantial obstructions to public business and to mitigate and
eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice
and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by firefighters
of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives
of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of
their employment or other mutual aid or protection.
History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 3.
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