(a) No employee or employee organization shall either directly or indirectly cause, instigate, encourage, condone or engage in any strike, nor the employer in any lockout. No employee or employee organization shall obstruct, impede or restrict, either directly or indirectly, any attempt to terminate a strike.
(b) The employer shall not pay, reimburse, make whole or otherwise compensate any employee for or during the period when said employee is directly or indirectly engaged in a strike, nor shall the employer thereafter compensate an employee who struck for wages or benefits lost during such strike.
(c) If an employee or employee organization violates this section, the employer, after adequate notice and a fair hearing before the permanent umpire who finds that the alleged violations have occurred and that any or all of the following actions are necessary in the public interest, may, subject to the law enforcement officer’s bill of rights, Title 3, Subtitle 1 of the Public Safety Article of the Maryland Code:
(1) Impose disciplinary action, including dismissal from employment, on employees engaged in such conduct;
(2) Terminate or suspend employee organization’s dues deduction privilege, if any;
(3) Revoke the certification of and disqualify the employee organization from participation in representation elections for a period up to a maximum of two (2) years.
(d) Nothing contained herein shall prohibit an employer from seeking any remedy available in a court of competent jurisdiction. (1982 L.M.C., ch. 53, § 3; , § 1.)
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