BILL NUMBER: SB 299	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

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



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 299, as introduced, Wyland. Employment: labor and employer
organizations.
   Existing law declares the public policy of the state regarding
labor organization.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that 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   sta   te
 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
  those  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 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   those  representatives or in
self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of
collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.