STAND. COM. REP. NO.761

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1426

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1426 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a separate collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers employed by the Department of Education.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 368.

Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Education (DOE) and the Office of Collective Bargaining and Managed Competition.

Your Committee finds that under existing law, substitute teachers lack the necessary representation to protect, preserve, and promote their rights. Substitute teachers fulfill an important role in bridging the gaps between shortages that arise from the absence of full-time, permanent teaching staff and any additional interim teaching staff needs within the DOE. Your Committee believes that substitute teachers should be afforded representation equal to that of their Unit 5 equivalents.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended the measure by deleting Section 2, which would have prohibited the bargaining of wages that are established by law.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1426, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1426, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair