(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
STRIKE. When an employee of the city, in concerted action with others, for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing a change in the conditions, compensation, rights, privileges, or obligations of employment, or of restricting, coercing, or unlawfully influencing others from remaining in, or from assuming or continuing his or her regularly assigned duties with the city, or from assuming the employment:
(a) Refuses to report for duty;
(b) Is willfully absent from his or her position and assigned duties;
(c) Abstains in whole or in part from full, faithful, and proper performance of the duties involved in his or her employment; or
(d) Engages in a stoppage of work.
(B) It is unlawful for any person to authorize, approve, or consent to a strike by 1 or more employees of the city. It is unlawful for any employee of the city to strike.
(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any city employee who violates the provisions of this section or any division thereof shall thereby abandon and terminate his or her appointment or employment and shall no longer hold the position or be entitled to any of the rights or benefits thereof. The termination of employment or appointment shall be immediate and compulsory.
(D) If, subsequent to the violation, any person may be appointed or reappointed, employed or re- employed, within a 1-year period after the violation as a city employee, the following conditions shall apply.
(1) His or her compensation shall in no event exceed that received by him or her immediately prior to the violation.
(2) The compensation, benefits, and emolument of the person shall not be increased by the city until the expiration of a 1-year period from the appointment or re-appointment, employment or re-employment.
(1981 Code, § 20-30) (Ord. 823, passed 1-22-1991) Penalty, see § 33.99