STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1491-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2585

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2585, S.D. 2, 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 allow graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii to protect their interests in the workplace by:

(1) Establishing a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii;

(2) Specifying that student help and part-time employees who are not graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii are excluded from the collective bargaining unit for University of Hawaii graduate student assistants; and

(3) Including the newly-created bargaining unit in collective bargaining statutes.

The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly; IMUAlliance; Hawaii State Teachers Association; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1260, AFL-CIO; Hawai‘i Construction Alliance; IATSE Local 665; Americans for Democratic Action; Academic Labor United; Young Progressives Demanding Action; Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i; Democratic Party of Hawaii Labor Caucus; and numerous individuals supported this measure. The University of Hawaii and Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure. The Employees' Retirement System and Office of Collective Bargaining offered comments on this measure.

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 S.B. No. 2585, S.D. 2, 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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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair