COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Communication Workers of America v. Ector County Hospital District (2004)
Most recently applied in Jefferson County v. Stines (June 2017)
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) An official of the state or of a political subdivision of the state may not enter into a collective bargaining contract with a labor organization regarding wages, hours, or conditions of employment of public employees.
(b) A contract entered into in violation of Subsection (a) is void.
(c) An official of the state or of a political subdivision of the state may not recognize a labor organization as the bargaining agent for a group of public employees.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.