Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 171 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal existing mandatory arbitration provisions and restore the right of public employees to strike.

The Department of Human Resources Development testified in support of this bill. The United Public Workers, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this bill.

Your Committee finds that subjecting public employees to final and binding arbitration deprives them of the right to determine for themselves and for their fellow employees whether the conditions of an agreement are satisfactory.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 171 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.