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in part 2 of its report has suggested to the Convention that
the principle of sovereigh immunity ought to be abbrogated
by the Constitution, that the State should no longer be able
to escape responsibility for its omissions and commissons
as, for instance, when an automobile owned by the State injures
oroeone, it should be in the sam position as when a private
person is involved in an accident
This same principle, but with much more force,
I suggest, applies also to the State in the role of an employer.
The 135,000 employees of the State in its political
subdivisions have no right to organize or to bargain collec-
tively.
It is true that in many areas of public employment
and to an increasing extent, there have been organizations
recognized by the State as political subdivisions and
bargaining occurs. We say that this ought to be a right.
It ought to be a must that the Government as an employer,
should certainly afford its citizens or its employees all
of the avenues of redrea* that those in private industry
enjoy.