STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2725

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2585

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2585, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii with the right to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.

Specifically, this measure establishes collective bargaining unit (15) to consist of graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Academic Labor United, IMUAlliance, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and eight individuals.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, University of Hawaii System, Office of Collective Bargaining, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that graduate student assistants at the University of Hawaii have reported inconsistencies in the workplace regarding job security, wages, and salary increases, and no provision of sick days or family leave. This measure will allow graduate student assistants to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining so that they may negotiate for fair salaries, benefits, and rights.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for purposes of style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2585, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2585, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair