BILL REQ. #:  H-3260.1 

Read first time 01/27/2006.   Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

     AN ACT Relating to union security provisions in public employment contracts; and adding a new section to chapter 41.58 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 41.58 RCW to read as follows:
     If only one organization is seeking certification as the representative of unrepresented employees under a chapter administered by the commission, and the showing of interest submitted in support of the petition indicates that the organization has been authorized by more than seventy percent of the employees to act as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining: (1) The employer and employees shall proceed to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement without further representational elections; and (2) the collective bargaining agreement submitted to the bargaining unit shall include union security provisions.