§ 903 - Employees' rights and duties; prohibited acts - Vermont Statutes

§ 903. Employees' rights and duties; prohibited acts

(a) Employees shall have the right to self-organization; to form, join or assist employee organizations; to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choice, and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all such activities, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, and to appeal grievances as provided in this chapter.

(b) No state employee may strike or recognize a picket line of an employee or labor organization while in the performance of his official duties.

(c) All employers, their officers, agents, and employees or representatives shall exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning matters allowable under section 904 of this title and to settle all disputes, whether arising out of the application of those agreements, or growing out of any dispute between the employer and the employees thereof. (Added 1969, No. 113, § 1; amended 1971, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; 1993, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 28.)