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Fla. Stat. § 447.03 (2025)
Employees’ right of self-organization.
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447.03 Employees’ right of self-organization.—Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor unions or labor organizations or to refrain from such activity, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.
Note.—Former s. 481.03.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17
cases, 1954–2020 · leading case: Seitz v. Duval Cnty. Sch. Bd., 366 So. 2d 119 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979).
Seitz v. Duval Cnty. Sch. Bd., 366 So. 2d 119 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979). “PERC contends that F.S. 447.03 was applicable to this situation in 1976 through the language in F.”
Pasco Cty. Sch. Bd. v. Florida Pub. Emp. Rel. Comm., 353 So. 2d 108 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). “The report was not filed with the Commission until November 6, 1975, after all evidence had been submitted to the hearing officer. PERC should have relied only upon such evidence, and not evidence presented at a collateral proceeding.”
Lord v. Local Union No. 2088, 481 F. Supp. 419 (M.D. Fla. 1979). “§ 447.03 2 (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the *422 Florida right-to-work civil laws”).”
St. Joe Paper Co. v. Gautreaux, 180 So. 2d 668 (Fla. 1st DCA 1965). “* * *" Still another statute, not included within Chapter 443, that may be considered in *672 connection with the said contention respecting Gautreaux's union activities, is Section 447.03, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., which provides: "447.”
Reep v. Reep, 565 So. 2d 814 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990). “§ 163 (West 1978), § 447.03, Fla. Stat. (1989).”
Seitz v. Duval Cty. Sch. Bd., 346 So. 2d 644 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). “Having determined that Seitz was properly dismissed for her absence from the performance of her duties and her refusal or inexcusable failure to discharge those duties, the circuit court found it unnecessary to pass on Seitz' substantive defense to the insubordination charge:…”
Treasure, Inc. v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders' Union, Local No. 133, 72 So. 2d 670 (Fla. 1954). “Even if the picketing is peaceful, if the purpose or reason for the picketing is illegal, then the picketing may be enjoined. F.S. § 447.09, F.S.A., makes it unlawful for any person to coerce or intimidate any employee in the enjoyment of his legal rights, including those…”
Stevens v. Horne, 325 So. 2d 459 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975). “09(11), which provides: "It shall be unlawful for any person: (11) To coerce or intimidate any employee in the enjoyment of his legal rights, including those guaranteed in § 447.03, or to intimidate his family, picket his domicile or injure the person or property of such…”
Rawlings v. Rawlings, 460 S.E.2d 581 (Va. Ct. App. 1995). “§ 168 and Fla. Stat. Ann. § 447.03 (West 1989)), and the good faith of the obligor parent in undertaking the strike for the long-term benefit of his continued employment.”
CANNERY, C., D., W. & A. EMP. v. Winter Haven Hosp., Inc., 279 So. 2d 23 (Fla. 1973). “[t]o coerce or intimidate any employee in the enjoyment of his legal rights, including those guaranteed in § 447.03... ." Generally, as in the instant case, the question of standing is usually raised by a motion to dismiss.”
Adams v. Auchter Co., 339 So. 2d 623 (Fla. 1976). “Fla. Stat. § 447.03 , F.S.A. (1973) provides: "Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own *626 choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of…”
Sch. Bd. of Marion Cty. v. Pub. Emp. Rel. Com'n, 330 So. 2d 770 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976). “(F.S. 447.03, 447.201) According to F.S. 447.”
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