§ 1012 - Employees' rights and duties; prohibited acts - Vermont Statutes

§ 1012. 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 their chosen representatives; to engage in concerted activities of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; to refrain from any or all those activities, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section; and to appeal grievances as provided in this chapter.

(b) No employee may strike or recognize a picket line of an employee organization while performing the employee's official duties.

(c) The employer and employees and the employee's representative shall exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning matters allowable under section 1013 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. (Added 1997, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 9.)