No employees of the city of Alhambra shall participate in, or afford leadership to a strike against the city of Alhambra, or engage in any form of concerted action to withhold service from said city. In the event of any such strike or concerted action against the city, it shall be the duty of the city manager, or other appointing authority to ascertain the identity of any employee of the city under his or her jurisdiction who is in violation of the provisions of this section and to initiate dismissal proceedings against such employee in accordance with the applic-able provisions of this charter and the Alhambra Municipal Code. Any citizen of the city may file written charges against an employee in violation of the provisions of this section. The appropriate appointing authority shall, upon receipt of such written charges, investigate without delay any such written charge, and forthwith inform said citizen of the findings and action, or proposed action, to be taken thereon.
Appointing authorities shall cause timely hearings to be held for any employee charged here-under, if the city manager, or other appointing authority, after a hearing, determines that the charges are supported by the evidence submitted, and that the employee willfully engaged in the strike or action, said appointing authority shall dismiss the employee involved, and said person shall not be reinstated or returned to the city of Alhambra employment except as a new employee who is employed in accordance with the regular employment practices of the city in effect at that time for the particular position of employment.
No officer, board or commissioner of the city, elected or appointed, shall have the power to grant amnesty to any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this section.
Every employee of the city of Alhambra on the effective date of this section, and each person employed on or after the effective date of this section, shall be furnished a copy and apprised of the provisions of this section.
In the event of any strike or concerted action to withhold service from the city of Alhambra by an employee organization, or employees represented thereby, the city council is hereby prohibited from granting any improvement in wages, hours or working conditions beyond those in effect or last offered to the striking organizations or employees represented thereby by the city prior to the commencement of such strike or concerted activity, and is prohibited from considering the granting of any such improvement beyond that which may have been last offered by the city prior to the strike or concerted activity until the commencement of meet and confer negotiations in the next subsequent calendar year at the time regularly scheduled for commencement under adopted city council policy governing such negotia-tions.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this charter, a dismissal imposed pursuant to this section shall not be appealable.
Editor's note: This section was added as Charter Amendment No. 1 approved by the voters in Resolu-tion No. R78-157, at an election held November 6, 1978. This section was further amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.