Public policy
Sec. 1. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of
Indiana that it is necessary and essential in the public interest to
facilitate the prompt, peaceful and just settlement of labor disputes
between public utility employers and their employees which cause
or threaten to cause an interruption in the supply of services
necessary to the health, safety, and well-being of the citizens of
Indiana, and to that end to encourage the making and maintaining of
agreements concerning wages, hours and other conditions of
employment through collective bargaining between public utility
employers and their employees, and to provide settlement procedures
for labor disputes between public utility employers and their
employees in cases where the collective bargaining process has
reached an impasse and stalemate and as a result thereof the parties
are unable to effect such settlement and which labor disputes, if not
settled, are likely to cause interruption of the supply of a public
utility service on which the community so affected is so dependent
that severe hardship would be inflicted on a substantial number of
persons by a cessation of such service.
(Formerly: Acts 1947, c.341, s.1.)
Last modified: May 27, 2006