Oral History Interview with Gene Freeland, October 12, 1980 Page: 10
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prohibit unions or organizations of employees or employees
themselves individually to take a concerted action or cer-
tain action. It denies public employees the right for
collective bargaining. It denies public employees to
even belong to a union that maintains the right to strike,
whether or not they ever strike in this state. Other
states have labor-management relations acts that govern
the affairs of employers and employees in the absence of
the federal legislation, which does not cover all employees
in any state. Texas merely has prohibitions, and that's
the attitude of the State of Texas and the official atti-
tude of the state government.
Has the migration that we've heard so much about, of the
northern industries into ,the Texas area, has an impact on
Texas unions?
Probably, by-and-large, it has had a negative impact, even
though the union companies in the State of Illinois that
may move to Texas must offer the union members in that
area the right to transfer when they establish a new com-
pany here. They are often covered by a national contract,
and it0s just a mere formality to get the local peopleto join the union because once they join the union, here's
this contract under which they will work.
That has helped in numbers, but most of the migration
has not been the production-type. It has been, to DallasKing:
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King, Amelia Kay & Freeland, Gene. Oral History Interview with Gene Freeland, October 12, 1980, book, October 12, 1980; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2085622/m1/12/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.