Assembly Bill A906

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes the right to strike as an employee right

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A906 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S903
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 1 §17, Constn
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9115, S9191

2023-A906 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the right to strike as an employee right.

2023-A906 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    906
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GALLAGHER, FORREST, MITAYNES, MAMDANI, RAMOS --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to section 17 of article 1 of  the  constitution,
   in relation to employee's collective bargaining rights

   Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 17 of article
 1 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   §  17.  Labor  of  human  beings  is not a commodity nor an article of
 commerce and shall never be so considered or construed.
   No laborer, worker or mechanic, in the employ of a contractor or  sub-
 contractor  engaged  in  the  performance  of  any public work, shall be
 permitted to work more than eight hours in any day  or  more  than  five
 days  in any week, except in cases of extraordinary emergency; nor shall
 he or she be paid less than the rate of wages  prevailing  in  the  same
 trade  or  occupation in the locality within the state where such public
 work is to be situated, erected or used.
   Employees shall have the right to organize,  STRIKE,  and  to  bargain
 collectively through representatives of their own choosing.
   §  2.  Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing be referred
 to the first  regular  legislative  session  convening  after  the  next
 succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conform-
 ity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for 3
 months previous to the time of such election.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD89006-01-3

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