STAND. COM. REP. NO.  418-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1940

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1940, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed at the University of Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Graduate Student Organization; University of Hawaii Professional Assembly; ILWU Local 142; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance, Office of Collective Bargaining, and the University of Hawaii System opposed this measure.

     Should the Committee on Finance further deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider the issue of why part-time graduate student assistants are excluded from a bargaining unit.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1940, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair