22 U.S.C. § 4101 — Congressional findings and policy
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-465 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 187 words · no verdicts yet
Congress finds that protecting Foreign Service workers’ rights to organize and bargain improves public business and dispute settlement. It also finds that Foreign Service conditions require a distinct cooperative labor framework consistent with effective government.
Congress finds that experience in private and public employment shows statutory protection of workers’ rights to organize, bargain collectively, and participate through chosen labor organizations (1) safeguards the public interest, (2) helps conduct public business effectively, and (3) encourages amicable settlement of employment-condition disputes. It finds that the public interest requires high performance by Service members and continuing modern work practices, and that the Foreign Service’s unique conditions require a distinct framework for modern, constructive, cooperative management relationships with organizations representing Service members. Therefore, Service labor organizations and collective bargaining are in the public interest and consistent with effective, efficient government. This subchapter must be interpreted consistently with that requirement.
The Congress finds that—
experience in both private and public employment indicates that the statutory protection of the right of workers to organize, bargain collectively, and participate through labor organizations of their own choosing in decisions which affect them—
safeguards the public interest,
contributes to the effective conduct of public business, and
facilitates and encourages the amicable settlement of disputes between workers and their employers involving conditions of employment;
the public interest demands the highest standards of performance by members of the Service and the continuous development and implementation of modern and progressive work practices to facilitate improved performance and efficiency; and
the unique conditions of Foreign Service employment require a distinct framework for the development and implementation of modern, constructive, and cooperative relationships between management officials and organizations representing members of the Service.
Therefore, labor organizations and collective bargaining in the Service are in the public interest and are consistent with the requirement of an effective and efficient Government. The provisions of this subchapter should be interpreted in a manner consistent with the requirement of an effective and efficient Government.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 1001, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2128.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-465 · 94 Stat. 2128
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