Section 923 Of Chapter 1. Contracts Against Public Policy From California Labor Code >> Division 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1.
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. In the interpretation and application of this chapter, the
public policy of this State is declared as follows:
Negotiation of terms and conditions of labor should result from
voluntary agreement between employer and employees. Governmental
authority has permitted and encouraged employers to organize in the
corporate and other forms of capital control. In dealing with such
employers, the individual unorganized worker is helpless to exercise
actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and
thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment.
Therefore it is necessary that the individual workman have full
freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of
representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and
conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the
interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their
agents, in the designation of such representatives or in
self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of
collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.