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RESOLUTION NO. 61-85 OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, <br />CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTIONAL <br />A~NDMENT 23 <br /> <br /> BE IT RESOLVED by t.~h~.'~City' ~0~ncii of the City of Santa A~a <br />that said Council is unalterably opposed to Assembly Constitutional <br />Amendment 23 for the reason that the existing situation in the <br />state of the law in California does not indicate the need of remedial <br />legislation of this type; that the proposed Constitutional Amendment <br />is penal in its nature, depriving the effected employee and the em- <br />ploying agency, under the conditions outlined, of their rights to <br />bargain for the service of said employee, and this Council does not <br />believe that the State of California should legislate on either side <br />of the issue here considered. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That an attempt to place such a <br />legislative provision in the Constitution is illogical, irrational, <br />unnecessary and wholly undesirable. The State of California presently <br />has the worst State Constitution existing in these United States of <br />America, overburdened, cluttered and smothered in legislative pro- <br />visions which have no proper place in any governmental constitution, <br />and while this Council does not believe that public employees have a <br />right to participate in a strike against a political subdivision or <br />or a public agency,and does believe that such conduct should be <br />prohibited, it does not believe that any provisions regarding the <br />same should be incorporated in a state constitution and it does not <br />believe that penal provisions of three-year non-employment status <br />should be imposed by an employer who has engaged in such unlawful <br />and undesirable conduct, nor does it beleive that any public agency <br />in this State should be deprived of its right to offer employment to <br />any employee for any such reason. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: 'i~nat the Assembly should rather <br />consider the drafting and submission of a new Constitution for <br />adoption which would place most of the presently included provisions <br />in the legislative field where they belong. <br /> <br />-1- <br /> <br /> <br />