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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 9 – Union Activities">
  <section prefix="§" num="9-1" heading="When activities permitted.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Internal business.">Solicitation of members, dues, and other internal employee organization business shall be conducted only during the non-duty hours of the employees concerned.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Meetings, etc., between management and union representatives.">Employer-requested or -approved consultations and meetings between management officials and representatives of recognized employee organizations shall, whenever practicable, be conducted on official time, but negotiations with an employee organization which has been accorded exclusive recognition shall be conducted during the non-duty hours of the employee organization representatives involved in such negotiations, if they are employees within the unit.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §133</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 68-251</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-2" heading="Strikes, secondary boycotts, and picketing prohibited.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Strikes or secondary boycotts.">Employee organizations shall not engage in, initiate, sponsor, support, or direct a strike or secondary boycott.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Picketing.">Employee organizations shall be prohibited from engaging in, initiating, sponsoring, supporting, directly or indirectly, picketing of the employer or any of its property in furtherance of a strike.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Penalties.">If any employee organization shall violate any of the provisions hereof:<para num="(1)">its designation as exclusive representative, if any, may be revoked by the employer;</para>
      <para num="(2)">it may be ineligible to participate in elections or be certified as exclusive representative for a period of 2 years thereafter; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">the employer may refrain from making payroll deductions for such organization’s dues for a period of 2 years thereafter.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §134</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 68-251</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 74-770</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
