The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
Resolution Presented for Adoption By City Too
 General for Purpose

and it has always been his duty to intervene in any dispute of any na- ture when the interests of the city are involved.
 Whether or not this resolution is adopted by your board, if the mem bers of the Police department as- sociate themselves with union or ganizations, which they have a right to do, it should be definitely under stood that such a union organiza- tion, in so far as the City of Water bury or your board is concerned. wilf not have the usual powers and rights which such union organiza- tion would have in relation to pri- vate industry.
 My conclusions briefly are as fol- lows:
 1. The proposed resolution (amended as indicated if adopt ed by your Board will not give the members of the Police De- partment any rights which they do not already possess. They now have and always have had the right to fully and freely as- sociate themselves with labor organizations of their own choos- ing.
 2. The Charter, ordinances and rules and regulations of your department fairly and im- partially provide for taking care of all justifiable grievances of its members.
 3. The National Labor Rela- tions Act and the Labor Rela- tions Act enacted by the Con- necticut General Assembly of 1945 specifically provides that Employer" shall not include any State or City. No organiza- tion or union of municipal en- ployes has the right to insist upon recognition as an exclu- sive or sole bargaining agency for its members.
 4. The City of Waterbury or your Board has no right or power to enter into collective bargaining {, agreements with labor unions or organizations representing muni- cipal employees because;
 (a) Cities are creatures of limited powers, having only those powers specifically dele gated by constitution, charter and statute and power to ex- ecute such collective bargaining agreements has not been dele gated to cities.
 (b) Such agreements would be an unlawful and unauthor- ized delegation of public power to the union, private organ ization, over which there is no public control.
 Co By taking away munich pal control over its employees, such agreements would in ef- feet, vest control of the muni- cipal government in an un- elected and uncontrolled private organization and take control from the head or heads of the municipal government who have been chosen by the public and whose conduct is regulated by law.
 (dD Control of wages by the union would give control of the municipal tax rate to the union, as the Board of Alder men could have nothing to say about the amount of future ap- propriations to meet the union wage scale.
 Without Authority
 5. The City of Waterbury through its Board of Aldermen or any other body or Board is without power or right to enact an ordinance allowing such col lective bargaining agreements to be entered into which would involve working conditions, closed shop, deduction of dues by check off, wages, hours of work, arbi- tration or many other matters us- ually included in such agreements between employees in private in- dustry and their employers.
 6. Policemen and Bremen and all other city employees have no right to strike to enforce collec- tive bargaining agreements or for any other reason at any time be-