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Committee advances bill barring government contracts from requiring employee union membership consideration; passes 8-3
Summary
Senate Bill 405, sponsored by Senator Rogers, aims to bar governmental entities from requiring or considering the union status of a private operator’s employees when contracting to manage or lease publicly owned assets.
Senator Rogers presented Senate Bill 405 and an amendment that the sponsor said “clarifies what the legislation does.” The amendment's language specifies that when a governmental entity contracts with a private entity to manage or lease an asset owned by the governmental entity, “the governmental entity may not require or consider as a provision of the contract or condition of entering into a contract that the employees of the private entity are members or nonmembers of the labor organization.”
Labor representatives opposed the bill as unnecessary and…
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