LD 1318
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LR 1321
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D.__Paying or loaning money, giving anything of value or
offering any other inducement to a harvester or hauler for
refusing or ceasing to belong to an association;

 
E.__Making or circulating unsubstantiated reports about
the finances, management or activities of associations or
forest landowners;

 
F.__Conspiring, combining, agreeing or arranging with any
other person to do, or aiding or abetting the doing of,
any practice that violates this Act;

 
G.__Refusing to bargain with a qualified bargaining
association with whom the forest landowner has had a prior
course of dealing or with a qualified bargaining
association that represents harvesters or haulers that
have had substantial dealing with the forest landowner
prior to the qualification of the association;

 
H.__Negotiating with a harvester or hauler included in the
qualified bargaining association after the association is
accredited; or

 
I.__Contracting__for hauling or harvesting with other
persons under terms more favorable than those terms
negotiated with a qualified bargaining association for
such hauling or harvesting, unless the forest landowner
has first offered to contract for those services under the
more favorable terms from the members of the qualified
bargaining association and those members have failed to
supply the required services within a reasonable time
according to the more favorable terms.

 
2.__Unfair practices by associations.__An association may
not engage or permit an employee or agent of the association
to engage in the following practices, declared to be unfair
practices under this chapter:

 
A.__Acting in a manner contrary to the bylaws of the
association;

 
B.__Refusing to bargain with a forest landowner with whom
the qualified bargaining association has had prior dealing
or with whom its harvesters or haulers have had
substantial dealing prior to qualification of the
association;

 
C.__Coercing or intimidating a forest landowner to breach,
cancel or terminate a membership agreement or other
agreement with an association or a contract with a
harvester or hauler;


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