13,545

1

approving the collective bargaining provision.

2

Those delegates covered under collective

3

bargaining agreements are accruing all benefits they

4

normally receive at their work site. Since I am not

5

covered under a collective bargaining agreement, my

6

pension has been stopped.

7

You in your wisdom and deliberations have made

8

provisions for the judges and their widows' pensions. Is

9

this a constitutional matter? Not any more than my

10

pension which would have still been in effect if you would

11

have passed a collective bargaining proposal to cover all

12

public employees.

13

The public employees whom you have seen fit to

14

deny the constitutional right to organize and bargain

15

collectively for their economic security are part of the

16

public that you surmise will strike against you. These

17

people have not asked for castles or ready-made fortunes,

18

only the right to organize and elect spokesmen who will

19

then negotiate salaries and working conditions with the

20

proper officials in the government.

21

As an employee of the City of Baltimore for