(a) This chapter shall be known as the State Labor Relations Act.

(b) It is the purpose and policy of this chapter to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations with each other, to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with labor organizations, to define and proscribe practices on the part of labor and management which are harmful to the general welfare, and to protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes. (1967, No. 198, § 1; amended 1969, No. 51, § 1, eff. April 8, 1969.)