HOUSE BILL No. 4462


     March 6, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Callahan, Freeman, Murphy, Schermesser and Hale and referred to the Committee on Labor and Occupational Safety.


        A bill to amend 1939 PA 176, entitled

   "An act to create a commission relative to labor disputes, and to
   prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the mediation and
   arbitration of labor disputes, and the holding of elections
   thereon; to regulate the conduct of parties to labor disputes and
   to require the parties to follow certain procedures; to regulate
   and limit the right to strike and picket; to protect the rights
   and privileges of employees, including the right to organize and
   engage in lawful concerted activities; to protect the rights and
   privileges of employers; to make certain acts unlawful; and to
   prescribe means of enforcement and penalties for violations of
   this act,"

   by amending section 22 (MCL 423.22).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec.  22.  (1)  It shall be unlawful for an employer to  AN

 2    EMPLOYER SHALL NOT engage in a lockout  or for  AND a labor

 3    organization  to  SHALL NOT engage in or instigate a strike with-

 4    out first having served notice as required in section 9.

 5         (2)  It shall be unlawful for any individual to  AN

 6    INDIVIDUAL SHALL NOT instigate a lockout or strike  which  THAT


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 1    is  unlawful under this section  PROHIBITED UNDER

 2    SUBSECTION (1).

 3         (3) AN EMPLOYER SHALL NOT DO EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING:

 4         (A) HARASS AN INDIVIDUAL LAWFULLY ENGAGED IN A STRIKE.

 5         (B) CARRY OR DISPLAY A FIREARM IN THE PRESENCE OF ANY

 6    STRIKER.

 7         (4) AN EMPLOYER'S AGENT OR EMPLOYEE WHO PROVIDES SECURITY OR

 8    PROTECTION OF THE EMPLOYER'S PROPERTY SHALL NOT DO ANY OF THE

 9    FOLLOWING DURING A STRIKE:

10         (A) HARASS AN INDIVIDUAL LAWFULLY ENGAGED IN A STRIKE.

11         (B) CARRY OR DISPLAY A FIREARM IN THE PRESENCE OF ANY

12    STRIKER.

13         (C) LEAVE THE EMPLOYER'S PROPERTY WITHIN THE COURSE OF THE

14    PERFORMANCE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES.

15         (5)  (3) Any  AN individual or person may pursue  any  AN

16    appropriate legal or equitable remedy or other relief in  any 

17    THE circuit court having  jurisdiction  VENUE with respect to

18     any  AN act or conduct in violation of  any of the provisions

19     of  this act, except FOR subsection (1) and sections 16 and 17a.

20    The existence of a criminal penalty with respect to  any such 

21    THAT act or conduct  shall  DOES not  be deemed to  preclude

22    appropriate equitable relief.

23         (6) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "FIREARM" MEANS THAT TERM AS

24    DEFINED IN SECTION 3T OF 1846 RS 1, MCL 8.3T.









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