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COl3rroLu.trl GENERAL OF TIM UNITED STATES
-4 WAI
MAY 9 1979
11-.19407 6
Th lionorable Fortney 114 Stark, '09P......
1!tue of ReprosentaLive
Dear Mr. Stark;
ft This in in response to your request that this Office determine hllether
oa Federal funds wer- 'Prply uded-jy-nnge--Bat_ tt c - f-the
Lnwrence Liverrnour-Laboratory,_.Liverpore,-Cal-iforn a . to publiciie 4 4a-
opposition to collective bargniningjat the Laboratory.
The Lawrence Livermore- Laboratory is a Governmant-omued Inultiprogram
laboratory operated by tile University of California tinder a contract with
the Department of Energy (DOP),
le have reviewed tile copien of the two docuiments you providel, ex
pressing the Director's opposijf0o to colleetive bargaining, .One of tile
documents is a Policy and Procedure Admfnis~ativc Memorandum dated
November 30, 1978, entitled ollehtive Ug4 aining at the Laboratory,)'
It is designed to inform laboratory emploces of tile recent enhetinen by.*
tile California State Legislaturo of the hlisher Education Empl cyr-rnaployee
Relations Act (Lerman Act), The memorandum indicntes that the new lhw
graits employes of tile University of California et the Lboratory the
right to participate in collective bargaining beginning on july ]., 1979.
It fturther advited employeeZ that procedures designed to tiplement the
ne law ware being developed by the Laboratory, The nemoran1un concludes
witl tile following remarks 1)y tile Director regarding collective bargiining
at the Laboratory:
Neither I,. nor University of California lPresdent
David Saxon, eudorse collective bargaining for tile.
Universiiy or for the Laboratory. It is my personal
convictIon, bnsed on a revLew of collective bargaining
at otheir instiitutios, thit tile Laboratory empJoyees'
interetsit as well as the Laboratory's nmission will be
best served by continuing to foster direct and open
relat:onships betwcen call)]oyees and supervisors rather
than by Collective barga:ining.
In the mont:1)s to come, employees wil.1 bav n
full opportunity to hear and apprzatise the iSSO .t
involved In collec:tive bargaifitg before inr/i
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