49-5-610 - Strikes Remedies. - Tennessee Statutes

49-5-610. Strikes Remedies.

(a)  (1)  If a strike occurs, the board of education may apply to the chancery court in the county to enjoin the strike. The application shall set forth the facts constituting the strike.

     (2)  If the court finds, after a hearing, that a strike has occurred, the court may enjoin the employees from participating in the strike.

(b)  When local boards of education have determined which employees have engaged in or participated in a strike, the employees may be subject to dismissal or forfeit of their claim to tenure status if they presently have attained tenure, and the employees may revert to probationary teacher status for the next three-year period. Any employee who engaged in or participated in a strike who is not a tenured teacher may also be subject to dismissal.

(c)  No penalty, forfeiture of rights or privileges or other sanction or fine imposed on a professional employees' organization, its officers or members, as the result of a strike, shall be negotiable by the organization and a board at any time.

[Acts 1978, ch. 570, § 10; T.C.A., § 49-5509.]