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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="23-813" title_number="23" title_name="Libraries" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Baltimore County Public Library -- Collective Bargaining">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Lockout” means the temporary withholding of work, by means of shutting down an operation or function in order to bring pressure on employees or on their representatives to accept a change in compensation or rights, privileges, obligations, or other terms and conditions of employment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Secondary boycott” means an activity by an employee organization or its members that is intended to induce, encourage, or coerce persons doing business with the employer to withhold, withdraw, or in any respect curtail their business relations with the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Strike” means the refusal or failure by an employee or group of employees to perform their duties of employment as assigned if a purpose of the refusal or failure is to induce, force, or require the employer to act or refrain from acting with regard to any matter.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Work stoppage” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The willful absence of a group of employees from their positions;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The engaging in a slowdown by employees; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The refusal of employees to perform job duties.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In general, strikes, work stoppages, lockouts, and secondary boycotts are prohibited.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Employees and employee organizations may not engage in, sponsor, initiate, support, direct, or condone a strike, work stoppage, or secondary boycott.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Employee organizations may not engage in, initiate, sponsor, or support, directly or indirectly, picketing of the employer, its property, or field or office facilities in furtherance of a strike, work stoppage, or secondary boycott.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If an employee organization violates this section, the Board, after a majority vote, may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Revoke the employee organization’s designation as certified exclusive representative;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Disqualify the employee organization from participating in representation elections for a period of up to 2 years; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Terminate immediately the payroll deductions for the employee organization’s dues.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>An employee who violates this section is subject to immediate disciplinary action, which may include permanent dismissal from the employment by the employer for just cause.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The employer may not direct a lockout against employees.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection may not be construed to prohibit the employer from exercising its managerial rights.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
