H.B. 874 Summary

• Establishes graduate assistants employed by the University of Hawaii and community college system as a new collective bargaining unit (unit 16) under Hawaii's public employee collective bargaining law.

• Includes graduate assistants in the negotiating structure where the governor has three votes, the board of regents of the University of Hawaii has two votes, and the president of the University of Hawaii has one vote.

• Allows part-time graduate assistants working less than 20 hours per week to be included in the bargaining unit, exempting them from the general exclusion of part-time employees.

• Extends impasse resolution procedures (mediation and reporting requirements) to graduate assistant bargaining disputes, allowing the Hawaii labor relations board to assist with mediation through day 50 of impasse.

• Takes effect on June 30, 3000.