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Resolution Number: 1973-D027
Title: Support Extending Legal Protection to Agricultural Workers
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the General Convention of the Episcopal Church meeting in Louisville, Kentucky in 1973 support and actively work for passage of State and Federal legislation that will bring agricultural workers under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act, will provide for secret-ballot elections, and will make fair and effective collective bargaining possible in agriculture.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Louisville, 1973 (New York: General Convention, 1973), p. 385.
  
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