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negotiating team, but there must be an election, but
could this be soroe other means in the implementing
legislation such as choosing by the enrollment in the organiza-
tions as of a certain time?
As you know, this was a matter of great difficulty
and perhaps why an employee-negotiating bill failed in the
legislature last year for teachers,
Are you in the Constitution setting up the
conditions under which employment negotiations, collective
negotiations in the public sector can be set up?
DELEGATE MAURER: Not at all. This is certainly
no subject for the Constitution. The Constitution should
state the principle. It would be hoped, I think, and very
desirable, that the legislature set up machinery by which
this provision could be implemented.
Certainly, it does not belong in the
Constitution.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Maurer?
DELEGATE MAURER: I have a question on bargaining
collectively.
As you know, in the New York State law on