2014 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. 1599c-28.
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