BILL NUMBER: AB 517	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Oropeza

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2003

   An act to amend Section 923 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 517, as introduced, Oropeza.  Employment: labor.
   Existing law provides that it is the public policy of the state
that workers are permitted to organize for the purpose of collective
bargaining.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 923 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   923.  In the interpretation and application of this chapter, the
public policy of this State is declared as follows:
   Negotiation of terms and conditions of labor should result from
voluntary agreement between employer and employees.  Governmental
authority  has permitted and encouraged  
permits and encourages  employers to organize in the corporate
and other forms of capital control.  In dealing with such employers,
the individual unorganized worker is helpless to exercise actual
liberty of contract and to protect his  or her  freedom of
labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of
employment.  Therefore it is necessary that the individual 
workman   worker  have full freedom of association,
self-organization, and designation of representatives of his  or
her  own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his
 or her  employment, and that he  or she  shall be
free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of
labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or
in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the
purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.