SEIU 668 CHAPTER  4

Unfair Labor Practice

Unfair Labor Practices (ULPS)

Public employers, their agents or representatives are prohibited from:

(1) Interfering, restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the

rights guaranteed in Article IV (*creating a union*)of this act.

(2) Dominating or interfering with the formation, existence or administration of any employee organization.

(3) Discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any employee organization.

(4) Discharging or otherwise discriminating against an employee because he has signed or filed an affidavit, petition or complaint or given any information or testimony under this act.

(5) Refusing to bargain collectively in good faith with an employee representative which is the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, including but not limited to the discussing of grievances with the exclusive representative.

(6) Refusing to reduce a collective bargaining agreement to writing and sign such agreement.

(7) Violating any of the rules and regulations established by the board regulating the conduct of representation elections.

(8) Refusing to comply with the provisions of an arbitration award deemed binding under section 903 of Article IX.

(9) Refusing to comply with the requirements of “meet and discuss.”

Employee organizations, their agents, or representatives, or public employees are prohibited from:

(1) Restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed

in Article IV of this act.

(2) Restraining or coercing a public employer in the selection of his

representative for the purposes of collective bargaining or the adjustment of

grievances.

(3) Refusing to bargain collectively in good faith with a public employer,

if they have been designated in accordance with the provisions of this act as the

exclusive representative of employes in an appropriate unit.

(4) Violating any of the rules and regulations established by the board

regulating the conduct of representation elections.

(5) Refusing to reduce a collective bargaining agreement to writing

and sign such agreement.

(6) Calling, instituting, maintaining or conducting a strike or boycott

against any public employer or picketing any place of business of a public

employer on account of any jurisdictional controversy.

(7) Engaging in, or inducing or encouraging any individual employed by

any person to engage in a strike or refusal to handle goods or perform services;

or threatening, coercing or restraining any person where an object thereof is to

(i) force or require any public employer to cease dealing or doing business with

any other person or (ii) force or require a public employer to recognize for

representation purposes an employee organization not certified by the board.

(8) Refusing to comply with the provisions of an arbitration award

deemed binding under section 903 of Article IX.

(9) Refusing to comply with the requirements of “meet and discuss.”

REMEMBER:  YOU BUSINESS AGENT FILES ULPS.  IF YOU FEEL THAT A ULP OCCURRED, CONTACT HIM/HER.  TIMELINES ARE SHORT AND CRITICAL WITH ULPS.  DO NOT DELAY CONTACTING YOUR BUSINESS AGENT.