{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-19-19-901.30","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.30","heading":"Strikes, work stoppages or slowdowns prohibited - Grant","body":"of labor rights - Violations - Arbitration.\n\nA. The protection of the public health, safety and welfare\n\ndemands that the permanent members of any Rural Fire Protection\n\nDistrict not be accorded the right to strike or engage in any work\n\nstoppage or slowdown. This necessary prohibition does not, however,\n\nrequire the denial to such employees of other well-recognized rights\n\nof labor such as the right to organize, to be represented by a\n\ncollective bargaining representative of their choice and the right\n\nto bargain collectively concerning wages, hours and other terms and\n\nconditions of employment; and such employees shall also have the\n\nright to refrain from any and all such activities.\n\nB. It is declared to be the public policy of this state to\n\naccord to the full-time firefighters in a Rural Fire Protection\n\nDistrict all of the rights of labor, other than the right to strike\n\nor to engage in any work stoppage or slowdown. Nothing in this act\n\nshall constitute a grant of the right to strike to any full-time\n\nfirefighter in a Rural Fire Protection District and such strikes are\n\nhereby prohibited. Unless otherwise provided by law, any person\n\nholding such a position who, by concerted action with others and\n\nwithout the lawful approval of the person’s superior, willfully\n\nabsents the person from his or her position or abstains in whole or\n\nin part from the full, faithful and proper performance of such\n\nperson’s duties for the purpose of inducing, influencing or coercing\n\na change in the conditions or compensation, or the rights,\n\nprivileges or obligations of employment shall be deemed to be on\n\nstrike but the person, upon request, shall be entitled to a\n\ndetermination as to whether he or she did violate the provisions of\n\nthis act. The request shall be filed in writing. The official or\n\nbody with whom the request is filed shall have the power to remove\n\nor discipline such employee within ten (10) days after regular\n\ncompensation of such employee has ceased or other discipline has\n\nbeen imposed. In the event of such request, the official or body\n\nshall within ten (10) days after the receipt of such request\n\ncommence a proceeding for the determination of whether the\n\nprovisions of this act have been violated by the full-time\n\nfirefighter in a Rural Fire Protection District, in accordance with\n\nthe law and regulations appropriate to a proceeding to remove a\n\nfull-time firefighter in a Rural Fire Protection District. The\n\nproceedings shall be undertaken without unnecessary delay. The\n\ndecision of the proceeding shall be made within ten (10) days\n\nfollowing the conclusion of the hearing. If the employee involved\n\nis held to have violated this act and his or her employment\n\nterminated or other discipline imposed, the employee shall have the\n\nright of review in the district court having jurisdiction of the\n\nparties, within thirty (30) days from such decision, for\n\ndetermination whether such decision is supported by competent,\n\nmaterial and substantial evidence on the whole record. To provide\n\nfor the exercise of these rights, a method of arbitration of\n\ndisputes is hereby established.\n\nC. It is declared to be the public policy of the State of\n\nOklahoma that no person shall be discharged from or denied\n\nemployment as a member of any Rural Fire Protection District of this\n\nstate by reason of membership or nonmembership in, or the payment or\n\nnonpayment of any dues, fees or other charges to, an organization of\n\nsuch members for collective bargaining purposes as herein\n\ncontemplated.\n\nD. The establishment of this method of arbitration shall not,\n\nhowever, in any way whatever, be deemed to be a recognition by the\n\nstate of compulsory arbitration as a superior method of settling\n\nlabor disputes between employees who possess the right to strike and\n\ntheir employers, but rather shall be deemed to be a recognition\nmembers for collective bargaining purposes as herein\n\ncontemplated.\n\nD. The establishment of this method of arbitration shall not,\n\nhowever, in any way whatever, be deemed to be a recognition by the\n\nstate of compulsory arbitration as a superior method of settling\n\nlabor disputes between employees who possess the right to strike and\n\ntheir employers, but rather shall be deemed to be a recognition\n\nsolely of the necessity to provide some alternative procedure for\n\nsettling disputes where employees must, as a matter of public\n\npolicy, be denied the usual right to strike.","path":["OK Code","Title 19"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os19.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"90f1a08bfa464037a09b9b5bedf7b24cb8ccdba54ff6883a3370ee9782bbaa13","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-19-19-901.3","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-19-19-901.30-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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