§ 22-6-2-1 — Public policy

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.