Amendment ID: S3143-78

Amendment 78

Labor Peace for Thermal Energy Networks

Ms. Edwards, Messrs. Collins and Mark, Ms. Jehlen, Ms. Kennedy, Ms. Howard, Messrs. Keenan, Oliveira and Feeney, Ms. Miranda and Mr. Eldridge move that the proposed new text be amended by adding the following section:-

SECTION 79A. Chapter 164 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended

by adding the following new section:-

Section X. (a) As used in this section the term “labor peace agreement” shall mean an

agreement between an employer and labor organization that, at a minimum, protects the

commonwealth’s proprietary interest by prohibiting the labor organization and its

members from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, boycotts, strikes and any other

economic interference with the employer’s business operations for the duration of the

agreement.

(b) Where the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof conveys ownership or

possession of land within its control to an end user, developer or operator of public lands

for the construction, operation, or maintenance of a thermal energy network, heat loop

and related renewable energy generation, distribution and transmission infrastructure

project work, those conveyances shall be conditioned upon the grantee’s agreement to

enter into fully executed labor peace agreements with a bona fide labor organization that

seeks to represent the grantee’s employees working on the project as their exclusive

bargaining representative, as permitted by federal law.

(c) Any funding, including grants and loans made by the commonwealth, including, but

not limited to, those made through the Massachusetts clean energy technology center

established under chapter 23J, to support the construction, operation or maintenance of a

thermal energy network or heat loop within the commonwealth shall be conditioned upon

the recipient’s agreement to enter into a fully executed labor peace agreement with a bona

fide labor organization that seeks to represent the grantee’s employees working on the

project as their exclusive bargaining representative, as permitted by federal law