447.501 Unfair labor
practices. ---
(1) Public employers or their agents or
representatives are prohibited from:
(a) Interfering with, restraining, or coercing public
employees in the exercise of any rights guaranteed them under this
part.
(b) Encouraging or discouraging membership in any employee
organization by discrimination in regard to hiring, tenure, or
other conditions of employment.
(c) Refusing to bargain collectively, failing to bargain
collectively in good faith, or refusing to sign a final agreement
agreed upon with the certified bargaining agent for the public
employees in the bargaining unit.
(d) Discharging or discriminating against a public
employee because he has filed charges or given testimony under this
part.
(e) Dominating, interfering with, or assisting in the
formation, existence, or administration of, any employee
organization or contributing financial support to such an
organization.
(f) Refusing to discuss grievances in good faith pursuant
to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement with either the
certified bargaining agent for the public employee or the employee
involved.
(2) A public employee organization or anyone acting in
its behalf or its officers, representatives, agents, or members
are prohibited from:
(a) Interfering with, restraining, or coercing public
employees in the exercise of any rights guaranteed them under this
part or interfering with, restraining, or coercing managerial
employees by reason of their performance of job duties or other
activities undertaken in the interests of the public
employer.
(b) Causing or attempting to cause a public employer to
discriminate against an employee because of the employee's
membership or nonmembership in an employee organization or
attempting to cause the public employer to violate any of the
provisions of this part.
(c) Refusing to bargain collectively or failing to bargain
collectively in good faith with a public employer.
(d) Discriminating against an employee because he has
signed or filed an affidavit, petition, or complaint or given any
information or testimony in any proceedings provided for in this
part.
(e) Participating in a strike against the public employer
by instigating or supporting, in any positive manner, a strike.
Any violation of this paragraph shall subject the violator to the
penalties provided in this part.
(f) Instigating or advocating support, in any positive
manner, for an employee organization's activities from high school
or grade school students or students in institutions of higher
learning.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1)
and (2), the parties' rights of free speech shall not be infringed,
and the expression of any arguments or opinions shall not
constitute, or be evidence of, an unfair employment practice or of
any other violation of this part, if such expression contains no
promise of benefits or threat of reprisal or
force.
History: s. 3, ch. 74-100; s. 1, ch. 77-174.