Professional employees have the right to self-organization, to form, join or be assisted by organizations, to participate in collaborative conferencing with local boards of education through representatives of their own choosing and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of other mutual aid and benefit; provided, that professional employees also have the right to refrain from any or all such activities.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-5-603
Rights of professional employees
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Hamilton County Education Ass'n v. Hamilton County Board of Education (2015)
Most recently applied in Hamilton County Education Ass'n v. Hamilton County Board of Education (June 2015)
Acts 2011, ch. 378, § 1.
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